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Aswad -> RE: 30 Days.... (11/23/2012 1:46:18 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR
Ok.... not having done any research on the date and just taking a wild guess......it that the date for the second passing of Apophus?
Computers count in base 2 numbers, two's complement or one's complement, generally with a number of digits that are some power of 2, these digits being called bits. In pretty much every modern piece of electronics, there is a processor that counts with either 8, 16, 32 or 64 such digits per number. In pretty much everything made from the 1970's to the early 2000's, and much that has been made since, time is represented as a 32 digit binary number in two's complement notation, meaning 2³¹-1 seconds from Epoch (1970 January 1st, midnight by coordinated universal time) is as high as these can count.
Y2K was a minor problem that we solved easily enough, mostly a matter of checking that we hadn't done anything dumb.
Y2038 is not quite so simple, and has a greater scope, but we're trying to fix it.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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