🚀 go-pugleaf

gordon@sys-2-34.multitone.co.uk (Gordon Scott) writes:

> Now where have I heard that before -- Oh yes, I remember, back
> in the 70's when 8-bit micro's cost as much as a small car and
> memory wasn't so cheap as is it is now. We'll fix it when we go
> 16bit, heck -- we have nearly 30 years to do this and we'll need
> new hardware before then.

I've heard some estimates that the amount of money saved by using
two-digit dates (saving on storage costs) was *more* than enough to
compensate for the costs of running around madly at this late date
trying to retrofit the world to have more than 100 years of
existence.

As for the 2038 end-of-epoch, I think we can safely wait till at
*least* 2001 before we start to panic.  :-)

(There *are* plans already in place for migrating to a 64-bit time_t.)
-- 
Chris Waters             | Bill Gates: "We need room to innovate!"
cwaters@systems.DHL.COM  | 
xtifr@dsp.net (personal) | Me: "Well, that would certainly be a change."
www.dsp.net/xtifr/ (web) |