[plug] The millenium date or year issue

[Bret Busby]

Steve Grasso wrote:
> 
> > > The bitmap has been Base64-encoded as a text inclusion to your email. On
> >
> >How is that different to a normal mime attachment?
> 
<snip>

> >A bit early isnt it? :)  368 days to go.
> 
> Oh, OK. It was a popularist salutation based on a common mathematical
> misunderstanding. Of course, everybody knows that St Gregory (of Gregorian
> calendar fame) got the birth-year of Jesus Christ wrong by perhaps 4 years
> anyway, and that the new millenium actually kicked in unheralded in (best
> guess) 1996.
> 

I understood that it was actually 42 AD, which means that the turn of the
millenium would be 2042.

Taking off the correction of four years that is mentioned above, that makes it
2038.

Now, that is a year that seems to be familiar, in terms of computer failures,
due to time problems...

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Bret Busby

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