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TNO Forums seems to be the only casualty to Y2k , all the posts made today are dated
January 1 , 21000
*LOL* Didnt expect that huh ?
This also happened at the Istandbul Stock Exchange.
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Not only did they fail to set the Thames ablaze, but that giant ferris wheel (which is a mighty eyesore, might I add) didn't pass safety inspection, so no one could ride it!
I loved the Paris fireworks though, THOSE were fireworks!
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[This message has been edited by The359 (edited January 01, 2000).]
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Yes, Y2K has struck TNO, resulting in the year being 20100.
On a side note, I would like to publicly state that I am not responsible for any of these Y2K temporal anomalies. Just because I have the ability to manipulate time itself doesn't mean that I caused it to go out-of-whack.
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Okay, so the turn of the century resulted in your computer being turned off? Er, why the flip was it on? There is a world of fun out there y'know. And maybe if you stopped running around shouting "I'm sorry, but you're all idiots for thinking that the new millenium starts this year. Any person with a grasp of mathematics can see that it's next year" then you might get to enjoy it.
Still, he's right. Crap fireworks.
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I gotta agree with 359 there. Those were far more creative fireworks on the Eifel Tower than they had in D.C. with the Washington monument.
------------------ --Then, said Cranly, do you not intend to become a protestant? --I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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TNO's probs are all fixed - though I can't believe the probs the freeware ubb had with the rollover...
The reason we're seeing all the 19100's and 2100's in places probably has to do with someone not knowing how the dating system they were using worked. In Perl, for instance, the year is returned as the current year minus 1900. In the 20th century this was a two digit year but not anymore. In the C standard library the time.h header can also give the year - 1900, IIRC.
In any case these problems result from someone seeing a year like 99 returned and assuming a two digit year system. Then they might stick a 19 in front of the 'two digit year'. When the year rolls over to 2000 we see something like 19100
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