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The Internet Will End in 30 Years!
By
Faisal Arshad Mahmood
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Friday May 16, 2008 /
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 Have you heard the latest doomsday scenario? In thirty years, the internet will
stop working! Apparently, a bug similar to the millennium bug will affect
Unix-based systems, like those that run the tubes, in the year 2038. The bug,
being dubbed the "2038 bug," arises because Unix-based systems store the time as
a signed 32-bit integer, in seconds, from midnight on January 1 1970. And the
latest time that can be represented in that format, by the Posix standard, is
3:14 AM on January 19, 2038. After that, times will wrap around and be
represented as a negative number.
And then what happens?
Programs will fail, of course. Since they will see times not as being in
2038 but rather in 1901, erroneous calculations and decisions will occur. (It's
true, I checked
Wikipedia!)
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