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Old January 7th 16, 10:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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In uk.transport.london message , Wed, 6
Jan 2016 08:31:20, Roland Perry posted:

In message , at 11:21:09 on Tue, 5
Jan 2016, Peter CS remarked:

During a particularly wearisome Y2K fix job one of my team remarked that
we'd better allow for 5-digit years or we'd have to do the whole thing
again in 8000 years' time.


Roll on 2038, or have they fixed that yet?


Some of them will; some will not.

Before that, we have D100K of the UK Gregorian Calendar, in a little
over 1.05 decades from now.

And, in 2028, many in the USA may be caught unawares as that year
contains 54 Sun..Sat calendar weeks or parts thereof, for the first time
in the Third Millennium.

And 2^32 seconds from the base date of ICL George 3 (and other systems)
comes in early February 2036.

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