I think it was Reagan who said there was no eternal life, except for a govenment program. The Trump administration is apparently making America great again by ending work on fixing something that didn’t happen seventeen years ago.
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I assume this is Fake News, because I remember that Pres. Obama was going to go over government programs with “a laser-like focus”. He wouldn’t have missed this one, surely?
Obama was going to go over government programs with “a laser-like focus”.
Well, he did if you count the deliberate acts of packing agencies with activists, increasing regulations, and decreasing accountability.
Shhh… nobody mention the Linux Y2038 bug. We don’t need another govt. program.
But but but… if they stop work on the Y2k bug, won’t that leave us vulnerable to the Y3k bug hitting all pre-Windows-98 versions of windows on Jan 1st, 3000?
Yes the UNIX 32-bit time_t bug. Don’t forget that.
Really Rand?
It didn’t exist?
Strange that I tested and repaired so much code that exhibited the issue.
Maybe I should have done something else in ’98 -’99 and let the problem occur so you could have had the proof you needed.
So, are you still working on it?
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I’m surprised that any one is even thinking about it 17+ years later. At least Trump is accomplishing something by ending it. How sad that Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama all let it go on.
Where are the whistle blowers when you really need one.
It would be amusing to take one of my unused computers, load it with a modern version of Windows, reset the clock to Dec 31, 1999 23:45 via the BIOS and see what happens after 15 minutes. I wonder if just booting into 1999 would be enough to ….