Year 2038 Fixes Still Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

[caligula]

I wonder how many developers have had their computer running with their date system set on Y2038+. Could we find a year with the same weekdays patterns ? (ie, may the 26th is a Thursday )? Is it periodic? If so, it might be worth it to try to use one's computer with the date set to 10k+

Of course the weekdays are periodic. They rotate one step each year except on leap years. Leap years are also deterministic although I'd imagine there could be some special leap days during the coming 10 000 years.

[zamadatix]

How is Microsoft affected by these problems?

Love how their epoch is January 1, 1601... Why in the world do they have to be different for everything?

Reference:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724284%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

They don't have this problem precisely because they did it different so poor point to brag about...

[Passso]

How is Microsoft affected by these problems?

Love how their epoch is January 1, 1601... Why in the world do they have to be different for everything?

Reference:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724284%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Because Windows is a medieval OS

[Passso]

How is Microsoft affected by these problems?

Love how their epoch is January 1, 1601... Why in the world do they have to be different for everything?

Because Windows is a medieval OS

[gamerk2]

Fun fact: This started to be a problem in the housing/banking industry back in 2008, when 30 year mortgage look-aheads began to fail because of this bug. Not that anything bad happened to the housing market in 2008 mind you...

[Zan Lynx]

Love how their epoch is January 1, 1601... Why in the world do they have to be different for everything?

I forget the exact details, but note how 1601 is 400 years before 2001. And leap years are affected by 400 and 1,000 year cycles. Something about that 1601 date makes the math very simple for calculating leap years and such like.