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Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038

From Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038
Date 2022-11-12 01:58 -0600
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On 11/12/2022 1:36 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
>> xkcd: Y2K and 2038
>>      https://xkcd.com/2697/
>>
>> It shouldn't cost more than a trillion dollars or two to investigate this.
> 
> The switchover to 64-bit systems should have done this.  Not sure
> that this cost a trillion dollars, but computers usually have a
> limited lifetime, so they had to be replaced anyway.

Most software is still 32 bit.  Having the operating system as 64 bit 
helps but it does not solve the problem of the 32 bit software running 
on it.  An unsigned 32 bit integer only gets us to 2106.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Porting software to 64 bit is a tremendous work for most software.

Lynn

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xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-11 14:29 -0600
  Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2022-11-11 20:31 -0800
  Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-12 07:36 +0000
    Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-12 01:58 -0600
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-12 08:30 +0000
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-11-12 10:00 +0000
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-11-12 11:29 +0100
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 FortranFan <parekhvs@gmail.com> - 2022-11-12 06:49 -0800
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-11-12 16:05 +0000
        Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-12 10:46 -0800
          Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-12 19:30 +0000
            Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-12 11:56 -0800
              Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-12 23:45 +0000
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-11-12 18:00 -0800
        Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-12 18:08 -0800
        Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2022-11-13 09:49 -0800
          Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-11-14 09:14 +0000
        Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-11-14 10:09 +0100
          Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-14 01:54 -0800
            Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> - 2022-11-14 09:41 -0600
          Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-14 14:09 +0000
        Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Klaus Wacker <klaus.w.wacker@t-online.de> - 2022-11-14 13:47 +0000
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2022-12-02 05:53 -0800
    Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2022-11-12 00:02 -0800
    Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-11-12 16:13 +0200
      Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-12 15:49 -0700
    Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-12 15:47 -0700
  Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Klaus Wacker <klaus.w.wacker@t-online.de> - 2022-11-13 12:45 +0000
    Re: xkcd: Y2K and 2038 Klaus Wacker <klaus.w.wacker@t-online.de> - 2022-11-13 13:23 +0000

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