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2038 Bug - Computer Issues, Video Gaming - Posted: 6th Oct, 2006 - 8:42am
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Remeber Y2K Bug?
Post Date: 5th Oct, 2006 - 3:41am / Post ID: #
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2038 Bug
2038 Bug
BATTEN DOWN FOR THE 2038 BUG
The millennium bug may have come and gone without a bang, but there is a now a new software glitch on the block that may represent a more potent threat to some computer systems.
Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3818152a28~,00.html
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Post Date: 6th Oct, 2006 - 8:42am / Post ID: #
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This will never be a problem. Read this quote from the article below. Computer geeks should know immediately why this won't be a problem.
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| Many 32-bit systems record time in seconds, which means that any elapsed time since January 1, 1970 is represented as a 32-bit integer, which is due to reach its upper limit on Tuesday, January 19, 2038. |
The new Windows OS is a sixty-four bit OS, in fact, most new Linux boxes are sixty-four bit as well. Most major new Unix OS's are also sixty-four bit OS as well, and indeed have been for many years in some cases. Most hospital systems (the field I work in) are sixty-four bit systems. In fact every single one of our hospitals run on sixty-four bit systems and are even going to be going to 128 bit in the next fifteen years to match with new security requirements for the centuries ahead. Maybe people like JB who run Windows Millennium until its obsoleted into the ground will have this problems in thirty-two years!
But not the rest of us. It will be unheard of to be on a thirty-two bit system in thirty-two years. TOPIC: 2038 Bug