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"Epochalypse" is a nice coinage. Not a new one either, this 2017 article attributes it to Mikko Hypponen (of F-Secure). https://www.tomsguide.com/us/2038-bug-bh2017,news-25551.html
The best thing about waiting until the last minute to fix something is it will only take a minute.
The fact that it's not common knowledge and not taught in schools and universities is concerning.
Is it? I was starting my career during Y2K. It was widely regarded as a bust , and I’d anticipate people expecting the same damned thing?
"Epochalypse" is a nice coinage. Not a new one either, this 2017 article attributes it to Mikko Hypponen (of F-Secure). https://www.tomsguide.com/us/2038-bug-bh2017,news-25551.html
Goes back at least slightly before that, as I've had 2038epochalypse.com registered since March 2017, but I can't recall whether I thought I was being clever or whether I heard it somewhere else.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? I was starting my career during Y2K. It was widely regarded as a bust , and I’d anticipate people expecting the same damned thing?
It was largely regarded as a success. Why do you say a bust?
I remember a rumor that “if enough people take their phone off the hook before midnight it’ll take down the phone network”
Patched in OpenBSD 5.5 [1] which was released in 2014. Patches were upstreamed into software in the ports tree, so hopefully that made life a little bit easier for other operating systems. Linux seems to have followed around 2020. [1]: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#55
When will milliseconds since the Unix epoch not be precisely representable in IEEE double anymore? (As it's used in JavaScript.)