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Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Malynn)
Fri Feb 13 20:06:36 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090214010320.GA1513611@hiwaay.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:06:27 -0500
From: Nathan Malynn <neito@nerdramblingz.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ravi Pina <ravi@cow.org> said:
>> Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC
>> 2038-01-19...
>
> Oddly enough, the end of the current Unix epoch is a prime. Not only
> that, it is a Mersenne prime, 2^31 - 1. Even more, it is the largest
> known Mersenne prime where its Mersenne number (31) is also a Mersenne
> prime (2^5 - 1).
>
> You can always count on numerology. This means something!
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
>
