I was just writing a program that required some date functions - and was reading the documentation. It said that:
"The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer). On Windows this range is limited from 01-01-1970 to 19-01-2038."
I asked myself - what happens after that? is this Y2K all over again? I remember hearing something about another Y2K bug when I was working as a Y2K compliance officer - but was too busy with the task at hand to bother with things 38 years in the future?
So I googled Y2K38 (a name that made sense in my head) and got all sorts of results. This is one from slashdot.
andre