Trump orders government to stop work on Y2K bug

[rangerrebew]

Trump orders government to stop work on Y2K bug

Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/06/16/trump-orders-government-to-stop-work-on-y2k-bug/

[rangerrebew]

I can envision the hags on "The View" coming uncorked over this attack on American workers.

[SirLinksALot]

[SirLinksALot]

Not many people know this, but there could be problems 20 years from now. They call it the 2038 Problem:

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[Oceander]

Not many people know this, but there could be problems 20 years from now. They call it the 2038 Problem:

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Is that a unix time bug?

[Mom MD]

But they were just on the verge of finding a solution!   

[Frank Cannon]

What's the bet we are still paying a group of people to figure out how to get a man on the moon?

[bigheadfred]

What's the bet we are still paying a group of people to figure out how to get a man on the moon?

Private sector or government?

[SirLinksALot]

Is that a unix time bug?

Yes it is.

According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

The Year 2038 problem is an issue for computing and data storage situations in which time values are stored or calculated as a signed 32-bit integer, and this number is interpreted as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 (the epoch).

 Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038, a problem similar to but not entirely analogous to the Y2K problem (also known as the Millennium Bug), in which 2-digit values representing the number of years since 1900 could not encode the year 2000 or later. Most 32-bit Unix-like systems store and manipulate time in this Unix time format, so the year 2038 problem is sometimes referred to as the Unix Millennium Bug by association.