I made this countdown timer to help you worry about the next epoch fail.

DBlume says Jul 11, 2016 04:07AM Last edited @

DBlume says Jul 11, 2016 03:19PM Last edited @

Let me help: Think banking infrastructure. Cold War era Department of Defense code.
DBlume says Jul 11, 2016 04:04PM Last edited @

Also, the reason the Y2K bug wasn't a big deal was generally because of the widespread use of epoch timestamps.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ Jul 11, 2016 07:06PM Last edited @

I'm not sure if I should click due to my ability to panic.
sjonsvenson Jul 12, 2016 07:35PM Last edited @

On IBM OS400 (system i) IBM solved the milemium problem by changing the reference date, Making it variable.
sjonsvenson Jul 12, 2016 07:40PM Last edited @

I also dount coldwar military programs are going to have a problem with it, a lot of them are older then Unix More at risk are the more modern space programs.
sjonsvenson Jul 12, 2016 07:40PM Last edited @

doubt

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