Hello Paul,
I'd be interested if you have some examples of of Y2K bugs that
were fixed before they became a problem. In my very limited
experience, I wasn't affected by any, nor aware of them.
Peter
On 10 December 2010 01:55, Paul Sheer p...@2038bug.com wrote:
Everybody said y2k
On 12/09/2010 17:35, Rob Seaman wrote:
On Dec 9, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
This is the first example I've come across where a widely used API will break
if UTC does not continue to have leap seconds.
Has anyone even considered a Y2K style inventory?
Absence of evidence is
On 12/10/2010 10:15 AM, Peter Vince wrote:
Hello Paul,
I'd be interested if you have some examples of of Y2K bugs that
were fixed before they became a problem. In my very limited
experience, I wasn't affected by any, nor aware of them.
Peter
On 10 December 2010 01:55, Paul
USNO predicts UT1-UTC. In Bulletin A
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/ser7.dat, they predict daily values
for a year in advance but only provide an error estimate up to 40 days
in advance. Elsewhere http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/deltat.preds,
longer-term predictions are given; supposedly
It's very concerning if Y2K has been recast as a myth
among technical professionals, [...]
Concerning indeed:
KCBI a Christian radio chanel recently proclaimed:
The Y2K is an example of scientists predicting disaster
when there was none. This is just like global warming.
There have been
I'm getting emotional to prepare for Y2038
Please don't take offense
-paul
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 16:21 +, p...@2038bug.com wrote:
WH-WH-Wht
Contractors spent millions of hours wading through hundreds of millions of
lines of code
adding missing century digits.
Thousands
On Dec 10, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Richard B. Langley wrote:
USNO predicts UT1-UTC. In Bulletin A
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/ser7.dat, they predict daily values for a
year in advance but only provide an error estimate up to 40 days in advance.
Elsewhere
Timekeeping is a means to an end. We've often discussed logistical issues.
There are more fundamental issues, many of which will be topics of IAU
Symposium 285 at Oxford (UK), 19-23 Sep 2011:
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/timedomainconf
The Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, will deliver a
In message 4d024bb8.9060...@bsdimp.com, Warner Losh writes:
On 12/09/2010 17:35, Rob Seaman wrote:
Rob,
First, a point of semantics: I don't think leap seconds can break
php further than it already is.
Second, there is no basis for claiming that php breaks when you
are talking about some
Ken Seidelmann, John Seago, and I addressed this in our papers and in
the recent editorial in Space News.
The Y2K effort was necessary. Everyone knew that we could not just
watch what might happen and catch up afterwards. In the case of leap
seconds, no one knows what the real consequences
In message 3b33e89c51d2de44be2f0c757c656c8809cda...@mail02.stk.com, Finklema
n, Dave writes:
We can just let things be as they have been for nearly 40 years.
Sure, no argument from here: Please shut down your Internet connection
and any cell-phones you might have, and don't use them ever again
very much need to know and agree what time it is.
Yes but mostly only to an accuracy of minutes.
-paul
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very much need to know and agree what time it is.
Yes but mostly only to an accuracy of minutes.
Pray tell what authority you have for this
One effect I recall from the Y2K prevention effort actually relates to
29 February 2000. There was considerable discussion among programmers as
to whether that date existed or not, and there was enough disagreement
among the computer language manuals and the like that programmers lost
On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Third, you have whined and complained about all the breakage for years now,
this is the first piece of concrete code you have ever presented.
It wasn't my example. The responsibility for due diligence doesn't rest with
those supporting
On Fri 2010-12-10T14:03:08 -0500, Gerard Ashton hath writ:
I suspect this rude awakening to the need
to inspect primary sources may be adding to the present discontent with
the lack of transparency of the ITU, and the inability to obtain what
public documents they have for free or for
On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message 3b33e89c51d2de44be2f0c757c656c8809cda...@mail02.stk.com,
Finklema
n, Dave writes:
We can just let things be as they have been for nearly 40 years.
Sure, no argument from here: Please shut down your Internet connection
On 11 Dec 2010 at 0:40, Paul Sheer wrote:
At the ISP I consult for there are about 20 servers serving 60,000
customers. Their clocks routinely go out of sync and it doesn't affect
service.
I have a script that dumps the timestamps of each of a number of
servers where I work; this is a recent
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