[nmglug] Time in a bottle?

[Geoff Chesshire]

Glug Thursday occurs on Feb 29 only once in 56 years.  Maybe we should 
celebrate this historic occasion.

On 2/29/24 10:06 AM, Jonathan Haack wrote:
> 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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