Talk:607: 2038 - Revision history

81.179.199.253 at 14:47, 17 March 2026

2026-03-17T14:47:51Z

Maur11cio: Reply, why Y2K was a big deal even though nothing happened

2026-03-17T08:58:21Z

Reply, why Y2K was a big deal even though nothing happened

172.68.213.181 at 07:59, 13 July 2024

2024-07-13T07:59:25Z

Twisted Code: replied to 2 threads

2022-11-24T15:59:13Z

replied to 2 threads

Beanie at 13:58, 19 April 2021

2021-04-19T13:58:15Z

162.158.75.136: possible other pun?

2019-03-25T16:32:16Z

possible other pun?

162.158.78.22 at 14:39, 28 August 2018

2018-08-28T14:39:35Z

Dgbrt at 22:36, 27 August 2018

2018-08-27T22:36:29Z

172.68.150.64 at 19:55, 27 August 2018

2018-08-27T19:55:50Z

172.68.54.10 at 17:03, 1 September 2017

2017-09-01T17:03:08Z

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	:despite its simplicity, don't think you want to have a bill that the computer system thinks is overdue by 100 years. Same problem here.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)		:despite its simplicity, don't think you want to have a bill that the computer system thinks is overdue by 100 years. Same problem here.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
	:Y2K was understood to be a big issue, so a lot of work was done to prevent it. So "normal" people might think that the "Y2K prophecy" turned out to be about nothing. Which is what can make 2038 worse, as people won't understand it as an issue, won't do work to prevent it, so Y2K might happen with delay but in full force. [[User:Maur11cio\|Maur11cio]] ([[User talk:Maur11cio\|talk]]) 08:58, 17 March 2026 (UTC)		:Y2K was understood to be a big issue, so a lot of work was done to prevent it. So "normal" people might think that the "Y2K prophecy" turned out to be about nothing. Which is what can make 2038 worse, as people won't understand it as an issue, won't do work to prevent it, so Y2K might happen with delay but in full force. [[User:Maur11cio\|Maur11cio]] ([[User talk:Maur11cio\|talk]]) 08:58, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
		+	::As a person who went through Y2K prep, even the work that was done that didn't ''prevent'' anything, let us know for sure (by checking) what would still work, and/or give impetus to another change (e.g. how many machines were still Win95/98, or even Win3.x, that could be usefully upinstalled to be (or replaced by) 2K...). And, you, know, just a general excuse for a more thorough audit. Like making sure that no-one has plugged in anything to the network that they really shouldn't have, or working out what things didn't go through the Change Control procedure and should have (and making sure everyone knows how to go through that, both end-users and the people administring it).
		+	::It absolutely definitely caught not-so-compliant 'Y2K fails', a handful of years ahead of time. Those that might have caused anything from no ''effective'' issues, or only minor disruption, or could have been really problematic. And such effects could have been a few years or more down the line (when things actually ticked over, upon the 1999-2000 'false milleniu') or even immediately (if due-dates "in a few years" started to be generated that were treated as 90-odd years overdue). But it also had great associated benefits for general 'housekeeping', doing things that we might not have done.
		+	::My company at the time had started in the '80s, at least my bit of the larger company that it now was. Other fragments might have been older, or newer, or created by the larger company to complement or revamp the other bits it had drawn in. There were so many different approaches to doing certain things. Our local Mail Handling System was a Netware-based thing, it had to be screw-plated onto the global Microsoft Exchange one. I think others had a Lotus Notes-based system that also had had to be jacked in accordingly. I can't remember whether or not the MHS was ''failed'' with Y2K (I think it was Ok, and was kept on as a peripheral legacy system for dealing with certain legacy contacts that might occasionally crop up further down the line), but it was a good reason to rationalise the corporate-wide system to be far less patchwork. And implement a useful biennal re-review cycle that picked up ''future'' problems with 'legacy' resources that might have just stayed stuck in the corner until someone wanted to rearrange the office (or the 'magic blue smoke' escaped from it, and nobody who knew what it was for(/what it was actually doing/how to now quickly do it with something else) was still working there.
		+	::And, usefully, the processes that Y2K implemented ''should'' be useful for 2038 (not in my Y2k-era company, it's no longer trading, but that wasn't due to Y2K ''or'' from Y2K-mitigation), because all the old problems have been 'solved' (people should know how to manage such things). Completeky new problems (just letting AI control everything, perhaps, might be ''capable'' of flawlessly dealing with 2K38 issues, but have never experienced them so could be an out-of-context issue that they can miss until they're struck by it, rather than Y2K-tested human anticipating things and thinking ahead of time/telling their successors to do so) are another. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253\|81.179.199.253]] 14:47, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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	I never really understood why people were worried about the Y2K bug. At worst, surely it would just interpret it as 1900 instead of 2000? [[User:Beanie\|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie\|talk]]) 13:58, 19 April 2021 (UTC)		I never really understood why people were worried about the Y2K bug. At worst, surely it would just interpret it as 1900 instead of 2000? [[User:Beanie\|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie\|talk]]) 13:58, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
	:despite its simplicity, don't think you want to have a bill that the computer system thinks is overdue by 100 years. Same problem here.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)		:despite its simplicity, don't think you want to have a bill that the computer system thinks is overdue by 100 years. Same problem here.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
		+	:Y2K was understood to be a big issue, so a lot of work was done to prevent it. So "normal" people might think that the "Y2K prophecy" turned out to be about nothing. Which is what can make 2038 worse, as people won't understand it as an issue, won't do work to prevent it, so Y2K might happen with delay but in full force. [[User:Maur11cio\|Maur11cio]] ([[User talk:Maur11cio\|talk]]) 08:58, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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	Woah, I learned about the 2038 problem yesterday, and I clicked "Random page" today and got this comic! Anyone remember what that phenomenon is called? [[User:LuigiBrick\|LuigiBrick]] ([[User talk:LuigiBrick\|talk]]) 13:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)		Woah, I learned about the 2038 problem yesterday, and I clicked "Random page" today and got this comic! Anyone remember what that phenomenon is called? [[User:LuigiBrick\|LuigiBrick]] ([[User talk:LuigiBrick\|talk]]) 13:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
		+	:The phenomenon might be called apopheny. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.213.181\|172.68.213.181]] 07:59, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

	It's the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.22\|162.158.78.22]] 14:39, 28 August 2018 (UTC)		It's the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.22\|162.158.78.22]] 14:39, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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	Maybe the "even WORSE" part was a pun because things will roll over 136 years instead of 100 as Y2K did. I don't want to add it without discussion first [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.136\|162.158.75.136]] 16:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)		Maybe the "even WORSE" part was a pun because things will roll over 136 years instead of 100 as Y2K did. I don't want to add it without discussion first [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.136\|162.158.75.136]] 16:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
		+	:it's possible, but I think it's mostly in reference to how much more we use computers now than we did then.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

	I never really understood why people were worried about the Y2K bug. At worst, surely it would just interpret it as 1900 instead of 2000? [[User:Beanie\|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie\|talk]]) 13:58, 19 April 2021 (UTC)		I never really understood why people were worried about the Y2K bug. At worst, surely it would just interpret it as 1900 instead of 2000? [[User:Beanie\|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie\|talk]]) 13:58, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
		+	:despite its simplicity, don't think you want to have a bill that the computer system thinks is overdue by 100 years. Same problem here.--[[User:Twisted Code\|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code\|talk]]) 15:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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	Maybe the "even WORSE" part was a pun because things will roll over 136 years instead of 100 as Y2K did. I don't want to add it without discussion first [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.136\|162.158.75.136]] 16:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)		Maybe the "even WORSE" part was a pun because things will roll over 136 years instead of 100 as Y2K did. I don't want to add it without discussion first [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.136\|162.158.75.136]] 16:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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		+	I never really understood why people were worried about the Y2K bug. At worst, surely it would just interpret it as 1900 instead of 2000? [[User:Beanie\|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie\|talk]]) 13:58, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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	:Writing to you from the day of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 comic no. 2038], I can reassure you that our admins solved the problem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.150.64\|172.68.150.64]] 19:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)		:Writing to you from the day of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 comic no. 2038], I can reassure you that our admins solved the problem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.150.64\|172.68.150.64]] 19:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
	::Thanks. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)		::Thanks. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
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		+	Maybe the "even WORSE" part was a pun because things will roll over 136 years instead of 100 as Y2K did. I don't want to add it without discussion first [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.136\|162.158.75.136]] 16:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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	Woah, I learned about the 2038 problem yesterday, and I clicked "Random page" today and got this comic! Anyone remember what that phenomenon is called? [[User:LuigiBrick\|LuigiBrick]] ([[User talk:LuigiBrick\|talk]]) 13:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)		Woah, I learned about the 2038 problem yesterday, and I clicked "Random page" today and got this comic! Anyone remember what that phenomenon is called? [[User:LuigiBrick\|LuigiBrick]] ([[User talk:LuigiBrick\|talk]]) 13:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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		+	It's the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.22\|162.158.78.22]] 14:39, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

	The phenomenon is called "coincidence." {{unsigned\|Davidh}}		The phenomenon is called "coincidence." {{unsigned\|Davidh}}

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	This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 this one]) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)		This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 this one]) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
	:Writing to you from the day of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 comic no. 2038], I can reassure you that our admins solved the problem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.150.64\|172.68.150.64]] 19:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)		:Writing to you from the day of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 comic no. 2038], I can reassure you that our admins solved the problem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.150.64\|172.68.150.64]] 19:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
		+	::Thanks. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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	This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 this one]) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)		This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 this one]) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
		+	:Writing to you from the day of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 comic no. 2038], I can reassure you that our admins solved the problem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.150.64\|172.68.150.64]] 19:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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	The phenomenon is called "coincidence." {{unsigned\|Davidh}}		The phenomenon is called "coincidence." {{unsigned\|Davidh}}

−	This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [~~this one](~~http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/~~607)~~) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:01, 1 September 2017 (UTC)	+	This wiki will have it's own 2038 problem, as when we get the 2038th comic (assuming both explain xkcd and the comic itself are still ongoing), http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 will have to be shared by two pages (currently, this link redirects to this comic, as does [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2038 this one]) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.10\|172.68.54.10]] 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)