Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.
Oh, we’ve got a few hurdles before then. The 32-bit unsigned counter for network time protocol resets in 2036, the GPS 10-bit week counter resets in 2038, and the old Unix signed 32-bit date also resets in 2038.
I’d only ever heard of the Unix epoch one. It’s interesting that three separate systems (with three different underlying data types) all overflow so closely together.
Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.
I also hope I don’t live to see the year 10,000.
Oh, we’ve got a few hurdles before then. The 32-bit unsigned counter for network time protocol resets in 2036, the GPS 10-bit week counter resets in 2038, and the old Unix signed 32-bit date also resets in 2038.
I’d only ever heard of the Unix epoch one. It’s interesting that three separate systems (with three different underlying data types) all overflow so closely together.
Probably have been invented around the same time and tick up at about the same rate.
Apparently the GPS one is a regular thing, every ~19 years.