[::maroma::]

They are?

I didn't think they ever had any Y2k issues.

Who's responsible for this thread??

[SupahCoolX]

I thought Apple was the one company that didn't really have to worry about the y2k thing to begin with. They even had a Super Bowl ad about it!

[rantweasel]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
I thought Apple was the one company that didn't really have to worry about the y2k thing to begin with.

Apple was one company that didn't, because all of the old MacOSes, like UNIX & OS X, count the date in seconds since the beginning of 1970. This means that the OS never tracks the year with a 2 digit number. It does mean that in 2037, your MacOSes (and OS X, and UNIX) will rollover and end up in 1970.

mathias

[::maroma::]

Originally posted by rantweasel:
Apple was one company that didn't, because all of the old MacOSes, like UNIX & OS X, count the date in seconds since the beginning of 1970. This means that the OS never tracks the year with a 2 digit number. It does mean that in 2037, your MacOSes (and OS X, and UNIX) will rollover and end up in 1970.

mathias

Well, I hope by then we have something better than UNIX/OS X.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by ::maroma:::
Well, I hope by then we have something better than UNIX/OS X.

More likely, they'll just upgrade the seconds counter from 64 bits (its original value) to 128. That'll last us for a few thousand more years.

[jasong]

I would guess that the witty thought behind this thread is probably based on the OS X 10.2.4 issue with clocks resetting.

I for one am quite impressed . . .

-- Jason

[dampeoples]

hehe

[alphasubzero949]

I think it's a conspiracy by SJ to relive the days of...........

*Snorting sound*


Wooooooow...dooooood...look at the pretty colors!

[sbjordal]

I started this topic, but for some reason the only the headline got posted...Anyways, take a look at this...

[TiBook:~] sbjordal% sudo shutdown -r 0303042300
Password:
Shutdown at Wed Mar 4 23:00:00 1903.
shutdown: [pid 587]
[TiBook:~] sbjordal%


Incase you have no idea what this means, I executed a command telling my Tibook to restart at 11 p.m, on March 4, 2003. The syntax is clearly outlined in the man page for shutdown:

"...specify a future time in one of two formats: +number,
or yymmddhhmm, where the year, month, and day may be defaulted to the current system values. "

The keyword here is "may" as simply writing "sudo shutdown -r 2300" would work like a charm.
However, according to the man page, there is nothing wrong by explisitly using yr/month/day etc

Just found the whole thing weird, that's all

[asmodeus]

Originally posted by rantweasel:
Apple was one company that didn't, because all of the old MacOSes, like UNIX & OS X, count the date in seconds since the beginning of 1970. This means that the OS never tracks the year with a 2 digit number. It does mean that in 2037, your MacOSes (and OS X, and UNIX) will rollover and end up in 1970.

mathias

According to this technote, nearly everything should be right up to 29940. I would imagine OS X is the same.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by asmodeus:
According to this technote, nearly everything should be right up to 29940. I would imagine OS X is the same.

Correct... 29940 for the Classic Mac OS.