At 07:14 PM 9/7/98 +0200, you wrote:
  >On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, James wrote:
  >>On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, dreamwvr wrote:
  >>
  >>-Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: 
  >>-Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the 
  >>-earth in March, 2028.  Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for
being 
  >>-spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038.
  >
  >>at least when that event does happen (the number of seconds 
  >>since some time in the 70's
  >> > long int - that's right isn't it?) we'll have the 
  >> >source to fix it. Somehow a 2038 bug doesn't seem
  >> >as catchy :)
  >
  >There' s nothing to fix since nobody will use a 32 bit arch in 2038.
  
Except maybe the United States government, who still uses vacuum tubes and
discrete transistors to run its air traffic control system....

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