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Originally Posted by Trantor
[Snip!] I wonder if anybody knows the date of their next fall back date? I know we have that asteroid heading our way in 20 to 30 years, but surely these guys must have something to be worried about before then.
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I don't know of any such before the various asteroid encounters, but one that I know is coming up is Sir Isaac Newton's "prediction" of the apocalypse in 2060. It's never too early for doomsday, you know! Five decades worth of pot-boiler books. Whoopee!
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Originally Posted by Trantor
The last doomsday date that I remember the nuts making a big deal about was the 1999/2000 date.
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As for computer-generated mayhem, the next date will be sometime in 2038 when the UNIX time flips back to 1901. (Number of seconds stored as a 32-bit signed quantity; rolls from +2 billion and something to -2 billion and something.) I'm sure most UNIX/Linux systems will be storing the number of seconds from 1970 January 1 as 64-bit numbers by then. Darn!
