blogger.sahaskatta.com — Y2k38 bug is already in place and is already affecting programs such as AOL Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Trilian, and Gaim. Just setting your date past 2038 and sending an IM to anyone will instantly crash the program!
Jul 12, 2005 View in Crawl 4
gronneJul 12, 2005
Thanks DevryGuy.
jackdoyleJul 12, 2005
while I think that getting this issue resolved prior to 1938 is important, I would like to think that we will have evolved past instant messaging in the way that AIM does it by then.It seems to some that we have 33 years to resolve this issue, but we really have much less time than that.Where we are really going to run into problems soon is in applications like loan financing? come three years from now a thirty-year mortgage will be going into 2038 and the computers will have to be able to make those calculations properly.
_____3Jul 12, 2005
I'm going to start stockpiling water and canned goods in my fallout shelter right now, just in case!
aots_fanJul 12, 2005
wierd?
standamanJul 12, 2005
didn't crash on my linux/GAIM or my XP/AIMutation