Re: Time in a bottle?
Jonathan Haack <jonathan-z41ulFnQs1aKQSNuG+CHvAC/[email protected]> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:06:29 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============8962511427066486352== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------oPta1aM8JAPGMfVkkTdYQadh" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------oPta1aM8JAPGMfVkkTdYQadh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Should be there On 2/28/24 9:04 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote: > NMGLUGers, Just caught up with this interesting issue on the brief > history of time: debian-takes-proactive-steps-to-address-y2k38 > <https://linuxiac.com/debian-takes-proactive-steps-to-address-y2k38/> > It seems as if January 1, 1970 will cause a counting error in 2038. An > interesting thought, as many of us deal with time and counting and who > can forget the Windows issue on Y2K? It was a fun night, New Year's > Eve 1999-2000. I never had so many supervisors attending my midnight > hours as on that night. A real "Night Manager" only has the power to > declare when a property moves to the next day. (It's based on when all > the bills are ready.) Luckily there was no system failure back then. > Looks like people won't have to worry in 2038, but you never know. > See you at Glug this week? There may be other reasons some of us are > "marking time." Thank you, Ted P > > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org --------------oPta1aM8JAPGMfVkkTdYQadh Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Should be there<br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/28/24 9:04 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAM7Qav9rkc68d8fDKWGmcJW4TwCC8ZTdieErjpQvP+8by0qPoA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">NMGLUGers, Just caught up with this interesting issue on the brief history of time: <a href="https://linuxiac.com/debian-takes-proactive-steps-to-address-y2k38/" moz-do-not-send="true">debian-takes-proactive-steps-to-address-y2k38</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It seems as if January 1, 1970 will cause a counting error in 2038. An interesting thought, as many of us deal with time and counting and who can forget the Windows issue on Y2K? It was a fun night, New Year's Eve 1999-2000. I never had so many supervisors attending my midnight hours as on that night. A real "Night Manager" only has the power to declare when a property moves to the next day. (It's based on when all the bills are ready.) Luckily there was no system failure back then.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Looks like people won't have to worry in 2038, but you never know.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">See you at Glug this week? There may be other reasons some of us are "marking time." Thank you, Ted P<br> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org">http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------oPta1aM8JAPGMfVkkTdYQadh-- --===============8962511427066486352== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org --===============8962511427066486352==--