[SlugLUG] Daylight Savings Time

[Karl Young]

cerise at armory.com(cerise at armory.com)@2007.02.23 09:28:58 -0800:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:11:22AM -0800, Karl Young wrote:
> > Thinking about date and time oddities, and having to dredge up the date -r for the 
> > BSD-like Mac reminds me of the next impending Doomsday, Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 PST 2038,
> > when "seconds since the epoch" overflows.
> > 
> > I'd like to take this opportunity to coin the term "S2G bug."
> 
>    The usual term I hear bandied about is Y2K+38.

Well, maybe, but that's a pretty lame term, unlike S2G, which rolls pleasingly
 off the tongue.

>  
> > At the time the developers I was working with said that by 2038 we would be using
> > 64-bit ints, and could track time in Mitcorseconds for nearly 300K years.
> > 
> > Another suggested that by 2038 we may not be using years, seconds, or bits.
> 
>    As one who attended the recent quantum computing demo at the Computer
> History Museum, I'd have to say that the future of conventional computing
> looks secure.  This isn't to imply that the technology there wasn't 
> breathtaking, but there's a major paradigm shift between using a conventional
> computer and using a quantum computer.  The concept of resource sharing and
> all the other wonderful things that an OS does for you pretty much goes out
> the window as a result.  The company that did it -- D-Wave -- seems to think
> of it more as a coprocessor than a computer in and of itself.  It doesn't seem
> like there's much of a push to make a total replacement eiher
>    Of course, if you believe John Titor, then certain old IBM computers are
> quite in demand in the future, so someone'll be using years, seconds, and bits
> on a rather limited machine. 8)

... Googles John Titor.

Attempt at humor or maniac?  I'm not sure.


>    I'd estimate this prediction is good until 2014 -- though there's nothing
> I'd like more than to be proven wrong here.

I'd be happy just to live long enough to see.

-karl

> 
> -Phil/CERisE
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