Two thousand fucking eight, people! I wanted to wish you all Happy New Year on the January 1st which is the official National Hangover day. ;) Yes, it is 2008 but I will be still be writing 07 on just about everything that needs to be dated for approximately 2-3 months out of habit. :P I also hate the fact we all need to go back to work tomorrow. Sigh… We should all just take the January off from work or something.
Btw, the guys who make those retarded New Year’s Eve glasses that spell out the year have it easy these days. They can just put the eye holes on the two central zeros. I want to see how they will make these glasses in the year 2111 when they have no oval shaped numbers to work with. Sadly I will be long dead by then. :P
Anyway, we all know that the universe as we know it ends on Tuesday Jan 19, 2038 at precisely 3:14 am GMT. I will leave it as an exercise to the readers to figure out why. ;)
So… What were everyone’s new year’s resolutions? I don’t make any cause that whole resolution thing is just an exercise in “what can I feel guilty about in January”. Not a good way to start the year. But people tell me it’s tradition or something, and they insist on coming up with these silly lists of things they definitely won’t do (or will do depending on the resolution) in the new year. So what is your list?
Anyway, Happy New Year Folks!
[tags]happy new year, new year, 2008, 2038[/tags]
Ya gotta love short sighted programmers.
Well happy new year Luke. No resolutions for me no use setting myself up for failure. haha.
Is resolving to not make any resolutions equivalent to dividing by 0?
Or does it just mean you broke your resolution in record time
Mine is to try to $5000 this year playing poker! Tonight I am hittin the casino to get started on that goal. I already made $500 tonight online, lets hope I don’t lose it tonight! :)
@Starhawk – fortunately a lot of linux distros already use 64 bis to store the unix timestamp. This one will be much less work than Y2K and the daylight savings thing.
@Matt` – nope, we’re not resolving – we just choose not to make resolutions. And since resolutions ought to be made prior to the new year then we are in the clear. :)
@Zack – good luck. I’m horrible at luck based games. I have a natural -3d6 to all luck based rolls – it’s like a curse or something. :(
I really do hope nobody does epoch calculations with signed 32-bit integers anymore in 2038 ;).
anyway: did anyone remember big crashes in 2001 when the decimal representation of the epoch went to 10 digits?
(Sun Sep 9 03:46:40 2001, perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1000000000)’)
I remember one minor problem in a Tivoli application helper script when an epoch-parsing script in perl used \d{9} instead of the correct \d{9,10}.
happy new year everyone who’s inclined to believe in the gregorian calendar. for all others refer to calendar converters like the collection at nabkal.de (german only, but quite complete).
Funny you would ask this. I actually did my new year’s resolutions for the first time ever this year. I don’t believe in starting something new only on Mondays or at the beginning of a new year, so I never had any specific resolutions until this year. A friend of mine suggested I should try it as it is easier to track your progress when your goals are written down, more visible and measurable so I gave it a shot.
I’ll let you know how it works out for me. :)