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. :)

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).

@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. :(

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! :)

Is resolving to not make any resolutions equivalent to dividing by 0?

Or does it just mean you broke your resolution in record time

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.

Ya gotta love short sighted programmers.

On January 19, 2038, UNIX-based programs and UNIX-like operating systems will run out of time. To be more precise, at 3:14:07 GMT, UNIX will be exactly 1 billion seconds old.

Well happy new year Luke. No resolutions for me no use setting myself up for failure. haha.