Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:36:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: tom@embt.com (Tom Embt) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <200001060136.UAA17842@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000105103806.0159b688@mail.embt.com> from Tom Embt at "Jan 5, 2000 10:38:06 am"
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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 <dmp@aracnet.com> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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