On Mon October 6 2008, Thomas J. Hruska wrote: > Philipp Gühring wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The biggest Problem with the Y2038 problem I see is that most people > > believe that it will go away due to the migration to 64 Bit machines. > > But this isn't going to happen. We have to start fixing 2038 now, also > > for all our 32 Bit platforms, 16 Bit platforms and 8 Bit platforms. > > > > Best regards, > > Philipp Gühring > > Oh...you mean like these problems (disclaimer: Found on the Internet > and taken out of context): >
Having spent a few years in testing development fuze and guidance systems... Don't worry about that one. If you are seriously concerned, move at least 150 miles away from any of the A-List cities. ;) (50 mile error allowance, 50 mile 100% kill zone, plus room to hide.) A more likely possibility - All of the crypto-locks on the physical facilities will not work, nor any of the access cards - nobody will be able to get in. Meaning the world will be effectively, totally disarmed. Mike > > "the magical year "2038" should ring some bells. You know - when all > 32-bit clocks roll around to 0. Computers that work tend to not get > replaced. Some line of code might be, 'if (lasttime > time()) > LaunchNuclearMissile();' thrown in perhaps as a dummy line that some > engineer thought would be funny." > > "It seems the (linux) world will enter a time tunnel in the year 2038 > and spit us back to 1901. http://www.2038bug.com/index.html ... So, > while 2038 is a fair way off, the main jist of the 2038bug.com site is > for programmers to take this into account especially when programming > for ... *nix powered nuclear bomb timers / anything that runs on long > term chips for domestic use or whatever." > > "It's also been widely reported that the bug might cause nuclear > missiles to launch themselves. Accidentally launching a nuclear missile > isn't exactly as easy as setting off your smoke detector...." > > "The Trident fleet is 14 boats with 12 deployable and armed with the > only new missile now being purchased, the Lockheed Trident D5. ... > Trident is being service-life extended until 2038 when it will be > replace with a new design." > > "A very interesting discussion. Does anyone have some information on > future US deployments and a possible replacement of the MM-III? I heard > something about a replacement planned for 2038." > > "Just some stuff to think about as we code our way to 2038. Launch that > nuclear missile!" > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
