From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 4 23:32:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4794F15026 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:32:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanislav@mail.bfm.org) Received: from WhizKid (rh23.bfm.org [216.127.220.216]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5 release 215 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:32:13 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991205004932.0098e6c0@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 00:49:32 -0600 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199912040725.AAA62727@panzer.kdm.org> References: <3.0.6.32.19991204010420.00967810@mail85.pair.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 00:25 04-12-1999 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >Just as the new millennium starts in 2001 because the years were numbered >starting at 1 (1 + 2000 == 2001), 1 + 2048 == 2049. So? I'm talking about a specific year (Y2K), not about centuries or millenia here. 2K = 2048. By your logic the expression "year 2000" would really be describing the year 2001. That's Space Odyssey. The year 2049 would be Y2K1, or perhaps Y2K[1], or even 1[Y2K]. Besides, if it were to refer to an overflow bug, an unsigned 10-bit year would overflow in 2048, not 2049. As a matter of fact, I would not be a bit surprised if some software did experience the Y2K bug in 2048 since some programs do pack a date into "sufficiently large" bit fields, and a 10-bit field was sufficiently large for many years (and will be for almost half a century). Come to think of it, I probably *would* be surprised, not about the bug, but about me still being around at the ripe old age of 94. :) Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message