From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 5 17:36:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874A015517 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:36:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA17842; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:36:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001060136.UAA17842@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000105103806.0159b688@mail.embt.com> from Tom Embt at "Jan 5, 2000 10:38:06 am" To: tom@embt.com (Tom Embt) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:36:11 -0500 (EST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message