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Y2K and Warming

Posted By: Marty Storer
Date: Friday, 25 April 2008, at 12:43 p.m.

In Response To: Y2K and Warming (mamabear)

I wonder how many Y2K Bugs would have bitten us had the corporate world not spent gazillions of dollars trying to root them out prior to 1/1/2000. There was quite a cottage industry. I even did some work on it myself. Client company's software identified 2000 as a leap year, used 2-digit years, but offset them so that 00 meant 1950. They're O.K. with that until late 2049. I think UNIX 32-bit time representations will roll over before then, but "OH, NOBODY WILL USE 32-BIT OS's BY 2038," hee hee.

They paid for the "no detected Y2k problems" rubberstamp, probably figuring it was cheap insurance.

My PC was inadvertently left on during the rollover and felt no ill effects. I'd changed the date representation to four-digit years, but that probably wasn't critical. The apocalypse failed to come--I wonder how many pundits were disappointed?

Global warming is not in the same category. Good data are out there. Those who think the current warming is due to some normal cycle that's independent of our hydrocarbon production would do well to do some homework. I think my generation will be leaving just in time.

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