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echo: bluewave
to: JEAN PARROT
from: Dan Ceppa
date: 2007-03-07 10:47:02
subject: 2038 ?

-> On 06 Mar 07  05:35:00, JEAN PARROT got back to MARK LEWIS 
-> Re: 2038 ?

 ML> that's 2038 and it will happen to _all_ programs that use that time
 ML> library and don't get updated...

 JP> Is this something alike the Y2K glitch ? What is there magic
 JP> in 2038 as a number ? Is it related to a binary code ? It is not
 JP> that important to me, Nancy has calculated that I would be 103 by
 JP> then, if I survive. Actually, for Nancy, I would be 106.

There was another glich like that in 2004 too, I think.  My dBXL 
program refused to open data bases without a fix.  (It may have been 
a y2k deal, but it's a program I use only rarely.)  

Besides, i wouldn't worry about 2038.  It's all supposed to be 
over in 2012...  



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