Time to End
 

There's some chatter about the world ending 12/21/2012, even a motion
picture coming out with some such theme. I guess the producers
couldn't wait for the "more logical" date 12/21/2112. Anyway, I have
a "perpetual calendar" tacked to my wall that lets me determine dates
through the years 1800-2050. Not very perpetual, but fairly practical.
It might outlast me, but if I'd had kids I couldn't pass it on.
Does anyone have a p.c. that works through the next millenium,
just in case some of us make it until then?

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem#Solutions[/url]
[QUOTE]Most operating systems for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit"]64-bit[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_architecture"]architectures[/URL] already use 64-bit integers in their time_t, and these operating systems are becoming more common, particularly in desktop and server environments. Using a (signed) 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date in approximately 292 billion years, on Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596 AD. As of 2007, however, hundreds of millions of 32-bit systems are deployed, many in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system"]embedded systems[/URL], and it is far from certain if they will all be replaced by 2038. Also 32-bit applications running on a 64-bit system are likely to be affected by the issue.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;194200]I guess the producers couldn't wait for the "more logical" date 12/21/2112.?[/QUOTE]

Why would they? The world is going to end on that day and they want to make their money and spend it before then. :lol:

Actually, we should be waiting for another party song, such as 1999 by Prince, although I don't know if December 12, 2012 works in any refrain...

It seems the world didn't end yet - pure solipsism tells me so.
And some objectivity. And my calendar reads 2/22/2013.

Maybe the Mayan scribists really did mean EOW on 12/21/2112,
and last year was only a typo.

Or maybe the BBT scientific explanation - spreading thin and cold
or collapsing solid or whatever else in the "end" -will take a lot longer.

I personally don't think time can end. Nor have begun. The
galaxy could theoretically explode, and we wouldn't be happy,
but the universe? Like that battery bunny.

[QUOTE=davar55;330500]Maybe the Mayan scribists really did mean EOW on 12/21/2112, and last year was only a typo.
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:rofl: Do you think they used typewriters? Or alphabets like we use? This calendar thing is a bunch of sticks and shadows...