Marik Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 In 2038, exactly 30 years from now, a bug in Unix will cause all computers running a Unix-based OS to crash. The biggest problem is that most internet servers run Unix, so a majority of websites will be down. "The 2038 bug", as it is called, is a problem with how the system processes time, similar to the y2k bug. Unix systems will show the time as a negative number because they encode the time in a 32-bit format, counting seconds form midnight on January 1, 1970. That last number that will work in that format will be the time at 3:14 A.M. on January 19, 2038.There has already been a big crash because of the bug: in May 2006, AOLServer web server software crashed. The problem came about because it was programmed so that database requests would not time out. However, instead of just setting timeout to 0, it set the timeout to 1 billion seconds in the future. One billion seconds (just over 31 years 251 days and 12 hours) after 21:27:28 on 12 May 2006 is after 2038, the system calculated the timeout date to be in the past, and crashed.Before you panic, just remember that 2038 is 30 years in the future. A fix might come our way by then. Source: Read Write Web Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!That's quite a pessimistic attitude, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!I agree....bush is capable of anything :dance2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!That's quite a pessimistic attitude, don't you think?Yes, and it also was a joke.I ain't really confident that the world will be annihilated because of a nuclear war.But to be honest, there is a chance that this will happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!I agree....bush is capable of anything :dance2:bush will be gone this year.how about not blaming everything on the U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 nono...not the U.S...just bush :dance2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!That's quite a pessimistic attitude, don't you think?Yes, and it also was a joke.I ain't really confident that the world will be annihilated because of a nuclear war.But to be honest, there is a chance that this will happen.Oh ok :dance2:Here's another one: There's also a chance that you and i were married in a former life... But to be honest, let's not take either one of those chances to serious :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!That's quite a pessimistic attitude, don't you think?Yes, and it also was a joke.I ain't really confident that the world will be annihilated because of a nuclear war.But to be honest, there is a chance that this will happen.Oh ok :dance2:Here's another one: There's also a chance that you and i were married in a former life... But to be honest, let's not take either one of those chances to serious :blink:That one was funny.You're from Holland? He? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!That's quite a pessimistic attitude, don't you think?Yes, and it also was a joke.I ain't really confident that the world will be annihilated because of a nuclear war.But to be honest, there is a chance that this will happen.Oh ok :dance2:Here's another one: There's also a chance that you and i were married in a former life... But to be honest, let's not take either one of those chances to serious :blink:That one was funny.You're from Holland? He?Yep, so does the flag say :blink: I wonder where you're from :PEdit: But let's get onto the real topic again, is this to be taken seriously? I mean, a patch, fix or something will come out for this right? It's not like, really hard to fix this, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 just like the millinium(pardon my spelling} bug probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noddy Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 well . . . . . . . whose bush??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 just like the millinium(pardon my spelling} bug probably.As the official 'Nsaneforums Spelling Monitor'(that is what my badge says :rolleyes: ) i'll have to give you one demerit for that dock. We'll add that to your lists, counting on from 1647 now... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!Holy shit all this fuss over this poor blok's post. What happened to the topic???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 So apparently we will be using the same exact versions of Unix on the same hardware in 30 years. I put a hell of a lot more money on nucular war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Lol,We all should be happy if the whole world isn't nuked in 30 years!Holy shit all this fuss over this poor blok's post. What happened to the topic????Just making some fun :welcome:I guess the conclusion to this topic is best said by dock and irefay:A patch, fix or something will come out for this right? It's not like, really hard to fix this, right?Just like the millinium(pardon my spelling} bug probably.So apparently we will be using the same exact versions of Unix on the same hardware in 30 years. I put a hell of a lot more money on nucular(pardon his spelling :lmao:} war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 lol i would be happy if it happened, the world would be in a better position without it lol......hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0buRn Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 It's all for "The Greater Good"/nudge anyone? :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geltoo9 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Sorry everyone, but this really isn't that big of a problem. The thing is that its only a problem for most of our home computers who run UNIX-like systems and still use 32-bit systems. The problem is already "fixed" on 64-bit hardware (the time_t data type was changed to be a 64-bit signed int), and by the time 2038 rolls around, I'm sure most sys admins would have been fairly prudent to have been updating their hardware in preparation. The real problem is in embedded systems, since those won't be so easy to update. That could probably use just a software update or something (change the definition of time_t to count from some epoch other than January 1, 1970). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Well, if the apply this "fix", won't internet be down for a few hours or so?Z0mg! No internet! It's like no breathing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumant30 Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 well . . . . . . . whose bush???Ru a alien??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 well . . . . . . . whose bush???Ru a alien???He probably means who bush will be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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