2038: Only 21 years away

Re:2038: Only 21 years away by HankB99 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:27PM (#13926859)

Yeah. I was working on an IoT system that uses NTP to set time. I generally plan a 20 year life span for tings like this. There's S/W I wrote over 20 years ago that is in devices still in use. The only good thing about this is that I'll not likely be around when trouble crops up. I didn't see any way to accommodate changes that are nearly decades away in code I write today.

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Re:2038: Only 21 years away by astrodust on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:40PM (#13928092)

Once in a while you'll stumble upon a Novell Netware server that's been running since the mid 1990s. Twenty years isn't a long time.

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Re:2038: Only 21 years away by madphrodite on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:35PM (#13936115)

Novell 3.x or 4. IPX/SPX only. print, file and directory service. Netware client for windows. Man I loved those days.

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