[nmglug] Time in a bottle?

[Jonathan Haack]

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
>
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