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Tue, 04 October 2011 14:43

The Natural Philosoph
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Michael Joel wrote:
> People weren't thinking code from 1960s would still be in use to 2000
> so you had a "Y2K scare" - didn't really pan out to be a REAL problem.
> Say that somehow humans do keep things going for another 7000 years -
> I don't think comparing a 40 year span to a 7000 year span is
> realistic. Did anyone actually see code from 1960 in 2000? Or is that
> like th eY2K thing mostly stories heard from someone who heard from
> someone?
>
> Anyway :)
> I ended up deciding to use the time stamp (mktime) to compare dates.
>
I am sure at some stage there wont be any 32 bit timestamps left...so
that takes us up to the year 584942419325 AD.

Comfortably longer then the lifetime of the earth.

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