Actually, some of the problems occurred earlier and some later. The fact that there was no major disaster was just luck. What stinks is that had we started earlier the whole thing could have been taken care of at a far lower cost and with less stress.
The good news was that some of the problems were not even worth fixing, e.g. displaying the year as 19100 instead of 2000. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith III Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What has IBM ever done for us? (probably more than I know) External Message: Use Caution The *IX problem is 2038 (03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038, to be precise). Wrong decade! Yes, by 2042 everything SHOULD be updated. I'm willing to bet that there will be minor problems, but certainly nothing like the doomsayers predicted for Y2K. ObAnecdote: We had a New Year's party for Y2K, and my daughter and her friends were hanging out in the basement while the adults were upstairs. At 12:00:00, one of the kids (probably my daughter) threw the main breaker for the house. We were worried for a moment until we heard the hysterical laughter... ...then I got to go in to work and be VERY bored for a few hours until management said "OK, we've passed enough major timezones that clearly nothing is gonna happen, go home". I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What has IBM ever done for us? (probably more than I know) 2042? Isn't that a generic *ix problm? Or am I thinking of the wrong overflow. I feel confidant that by 2042 we'll be using ETOD and 64-bit time_t structures, but that we'll find new ways to paint ourselves into a corner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
