Re: The Year 2038 Problem

From: Leor Zolman (leor_at_bdsoft.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:34:31 -0400

On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:41:50 -0700, Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net> wrote:

>On 27 May 2004 17:03:29 GMT, Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi>
>wrote:
>
>>Bob Day <xxxxxxx@yyyyyyy.com> scribbled the following
>>on comp.lang.c:
>>> "Generic Usenet Account" <usenet@sta.samsung.com> wrote in message
>>> news:90e5135.0405270826.64cae839@posting.google.com...
>>> < snip >
>>>> Although the Y2K scare turned out to be vastly overblown,
>>> < snip >
>>
>>> Idiot!! It wasn't "vastly overblown" at all. The fact is,
>>> we did a damn good job fixing it.
>>
>>Oh yeah? How about all those stories about everything from your coffee
>>maker to your car engine's sparkplugs stopping working on the exact
>>second the year 1999 changes into the year 2000? If that's not "vastly
>>overblown", what is? Dogs turning into cats and vice versa?
>
>The only reason it didn't happen was because we fixed it.
>
>I suppose the world would have appreciated it more if we'd let
>everything go to hell and then became heroes by fixing it afterward.

I suspect just the opposite. In the ensuing uproar over renegade,
unprincipled, greedy software developers, government would just enact the
Federal Software Quality Commission to oversee and regulate the software
industry into submission.
        -leor 

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