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2099?

RSLancastr

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I just noticed that in my Date and Time Properties application in MS Windows, the year goes no further than 2099!!!

The programmers at Microsoft are very wise and successful. Not much is known about them. Why would they stop making their calendars on 2099?

I feel that this is fairly compelling evidence that the world will end on December 31, 2099.

Please plan accordingly.
 
ZOMG, just for the fun of it, I checked my date and time settings as well.

Mine stop at 2038! I can't set it beyond January 1st, 2038. And I'm using a Mac. Oh noes, Steve Jobs is even more apocalyptic than Bill. :eek:
 
The world was suppose to end in Dec 31st 1999...however, God patched it...damn. Next update is due before the end of the Mayan Calender.

Some hacker already crashed the Alpha(Codename: Eden), then God screwed up some code, Flooded the world and started over but kept some data with the Beta.

Welcome to Reality 2.0. We're now in a relatively stable build...except for the occasional natural disaster.
 
RSLancastr said:
Why would they stop making their calendars on 2099?
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The explaination is at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q58495/

SUMMARY
The year portion of the system date has 7 bits for storage (0-127). MS-DOS offsets the year from 1980; therefore, the maximum value for the year should be 2107. However, due to a ROM BIOS limitation, 2099 is the maximum value. The description for interrupt 1AH details the implementation causing the limitation.
MORE INFORMATION
The ROM-BIOS interrupt 1AH deals with BCD (binary coded decimal) numbers. Each decimal place is represented by 4 bits. The century is returned in CH (either 19 or 20). CL contains the year. Each byte can have a value ranging from 0 to 9. The numbers returned are absolute values, not offsets from 1980. Thus, the maximum value for the (decade) year is 99. With the century returning 19 or 20, the maximum year (century-year) is 2099.
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I still have an old computer that needed a BIOS patch for Y2K that I never installed. Its calendar stopped at 1999. When 2000 hit, the date rolled back to 1980.
 
My calendar on my lappy "begins" @ 1980...somehow that comforts me.

It was the year I quit 'high' school, and my first encounter with a member of the female genitalia...oh how I loved that year.

Let's not focus on the 'end', however the Alpha is my 'focus'....

Ah yeah, I will be dead by 2099........unless I am the lord? :rolleyes:
 
wahrheit said:
ZOMG, just for the fun of it, I checked my date and time settings as well.

Mine stop at 2038! I can't set it beyond January 1st, 2038. And I'm using a Mac. Oh noes, Steve Jobs is even more apocalyptic than Bill. :eek:
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Woah!

I think 2038 is the year that the game Hellgate:London is set in.. the date at which multiple hellgates open all over the Earth, and swarms of demons overrun civilization and kill nearly everyone!

it must be true!
 
wahrheit said:
ZOMG, just for the fun of it, I checked my date and time settings as well.

Mine stop at 2038! I can't set it beyond January 1st, 2038. And I'm using a Mac. Oh noes, Steve Jobs is even more apocalyptic than Bill. :eek:
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That's the Year 2038 problemWP, in Unix systems using signed 32bit representation of dates. I thought all current OSes had fixed that problem, but obviously not.

Then again, POSIX Time is fundamentally broken anyway.
 
Nick Bogaerts said:
That's the Year 2038 problemWP, in Unix systems using signed 32bit representation of dates. I thought all current OSes had fixed that problem, but obviously not.
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Anything that is 32bit hasn't fixed it. The general assumption is that we will all be useing 64 bit by 2038.
 
I worked tech support back in 1999, and there was a bug in Microsoft Outlook 98 that caused calendars printed for some months in 1999 to display 2099. It only showed up in the printed version, not on the screen.

Unfortunately for those many secretaries who had this problem, there were only two options:

1. Upgrade to a newer version of Microsoft Outlook (not an option at this company, since everyone had to have the same software).
2. Set the computer clock back to 1998.

A lot of people weren't happy about this.
 
In Microsoft Outlook I can go to year 3333 and beyond.

As for the OP please remember the Y2.1K issue will need to be addressed sometime in the next 90 years. Otherwise chaos.
 
Nya, nya, nya ...

My system goes all the way from 17-November-1858 to 31-December-9999.

$ day=f$cvtime("17-nov-1858",,"weekday")
$ show symbol day
DAY = "Wednesday"
$ day=f$cvtime("31-dec-9999",,"weekday")
$ show symbol day
DAY = "Friday"

:)
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
I still have an old computer that needed a BIOS patch for Y2K that I never installed. Its calendar stopped at 1999. When 2000 hit, the date rolled back to 1980.
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Same here. I had to uninstall Windows 98 and roll back to DOS. Everything still worked perfectly, but I was afraid of causing a paradox that would break spacetime, or something. :)
 
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