I think we can defederate that company’s name from our personal vocabulary instances.

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    Yeah good explanation. I was too young to had any further knowledge about this issue way back and only saw it manifesting when I had to adjust my windows 95 clock :)

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      Next doom and gloom scenario is 2038, when poorly maintained *nix systems will think it’s Jan 1st, 1970.

      I’ll be pushing 68. Hopefully retired or dead by then.

      … I’ll probably still be working, though…

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        Eh, it only being an issue for 32-bit systems will hopefully help. But of course somebody will still be running that in 15 years.

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          Lots of financial institutions are still using software programmed with Cobol. My father graduated with a software engineering degree for Cobol in the mid-1970s. My company provides external API for customers who still use green screen terminals. Of course there will be people running 32-bit systems. And I’m sure there will be well-paid jobs for fixing any date overflow on those systems.