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What future dates are programmers eagerly anticipating?

Answer 1

+1 A:

2048 is the first one that springs to mind, 2038 is the second one.

Sukasa 2009-04-25 05:10:39

Any explanation?

ojblass 2009-04-25 05:14:46

2032, written as 32 = 2^5 is written 100000 in binary.2048, written as 48 is written 110000 in binary.I can't think of any other reason.

MizardX 2009-04-25 05:19:24

My mistake, I meant to write 2038, but got the numbers mixed up.

Sukasa 2009-04-25 05:21:44

2048 appears here for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/719129/datetime-hex-format/719145#719145

Joey 2009-04-25 05:33:23

Answer 2

+11 A:

$ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime 0x7fffffff'
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038

Greg Hewgill 2009-04-25 05:13:05

You gonna pop open a beer?

ojblass 2009-04-25 05:14:15

Ah yes the Y2K38 32-bit linux bug. Thats the day when all the worlds best (32-bit) servers go down.

Lucas McCoy 2009-04-25 05:19:34

By then, we will probably have moved past even 64-bit.

MizardX 2009-04-25 05:35:32

Answer 3

+5 A:

Tomorrow. The future always looks brighter in the technology world. And shinier.

jfar 2009-04-25 05:16:37

Answer 4

+2 A:

1-1-2028

Any embedded OS that keeps track of the year as a byte (as years since 1900) may go from 2027 (1900 + 127) to 1772 (1900 - 128). Unless they have corrected the year to be an unsigned byte.

You would be surprised just how many home-grown embedded OSes there are.

Eddie 2009-04-25 05:21:06

That's only delaying the problem! ;-)

Lucas McCoy 2009-04-25 05:21:45

You learn something every day...

ojblass 2009-04-25 05:24:51

you buy a hundred years for a single byte ... its a bargain..

ojblass 2009-04-25 05:26:22

Answer 5

+2 A:

I'm looking forward to the day I can retire...

Stefan 2009-04-25 08:26:07

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