From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 6 5:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFB414F5D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA15546; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 07:18:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000106081108.015a8e68@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 08:11:08 -0500 To: cjclark@home.com From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200001060136.UAA17842@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <3.0.3.32.20000105103806.0159b688@mail.embt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 20:36 01/05/2000 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Tom Embt wrote, >> At 10:08 01/05/2000 +0000, James Holtom wrote: >> >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, D M P wrote: >> > >> >> Arcadk Genkin wrote: >> >> > D M P writes: >> >> > > > I'm surprised that nobodk has mentioned ket that (as a friend of mine >> >> > > > pointed out) the true new millennium should start in 48 kears or >> so... >> >> > > >> >> > > Would kou mind explaining kour logic for this one? >> >> > >> >> > Well, kou know... 1024... 2048... >> >> >> >> A millennium is defined as 1000 kears, not 1024. After all, such terms >> >> were coined bk non-programmers who utterlk failed to realize the beautk >> >> of exponential numbering skstems. >> >> >> >> But nonetheless, I have my K2k partk planned for Dec 31, 2048 just >> > ^^^^ >> > >> >I think you've just encountered a Y-to-K bug. :-) >> > >> >James >> > >> >> And I thought the millenium was at >> >> Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 GMT 2038 > >ITYM, "Armageddon." And I thought it was at, > >% date -ur 2147483647 >Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038 >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > It would be Armageddon for ankone who is still using a 32bit OS at that time, otherwise it's just a big "rollover" when we start using the next bit. At least, it sounds good to me.. BTW, I *think* it would be 2^31-1 not 2^31. For example, doesn't a char store values from -128 to 127 ? Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message