From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 5 7:38:35 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 CCDF614A0A for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:38:28 -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 JAA06525 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:45:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000105103806.0159b688@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 10:38:06 -0500 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: References: <3870AA1D.E61C070D@aracnet.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 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 Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message