The outage highlights how extensive people's reliance on technology has become and how an error based on something as trivial as a calendar date can upturn entire businesses and disrupt people's day. While some gas stations were still able to accept other forms of payments, those that relied on the broken terminals found themselves missing out on business. RNZ reported speaking to someone who was declined service by four gas stations due to the outage. //
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fahirsch said:
Well, it's just a one day problem that won't repeat until 2028😃
So if i know how bugs get fixed, it wont get fixed until 2/29/2028.
This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.
Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.
It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP
Also known as the Y2K38 Bug, The Unix Y2K Bug or Epochalypse
The year 2038 problem is a problem caused by how some software systems store dates. When these dates reach 1 second after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038 they could have an error or incorrectly store the wrong date (in some cases 20:45:52 on Friday, 13 December 1901).
This server also provides secure Roughtime service. It is monitored and maintained at the same service level as the NTP service provided. The time is synchronized with stratum 1 upstreams.
The introduction of railroads changed a lot, including time; with every town having its own time, marked at the sun's zenith, scheduling was a mess. //
Charles F. Dowd tamed time.
The career educator conceived a plan so audacious it’s hard to believe there was an era when his vision for the world didn’t exist.
Dowd created time zones. He put the rotation of the Earth, the rise of the sun, the movement of the heavens and the genesis of eternity itself on an artificial schedule for the benefit of mankind.
"To regulate the time of this Empire Republic of the World is an undertaking of magnificent proportions," the Indianapolis Sentinel wrote on Nov. 21, 1883, three days after railroads instituted time zones across North America. //
We recalcitrant Americans came late to the party, not legally adopting the time zone system until 1918, during the Great War, but the railroads bought into the new system in 1883, as it made schedule-keeping a lot easier. //
In one of history's little ironies, Charles Dowd was killed in 1904 when he stepped in front of a train; history has not recorded whether or not that train was running on time.
Already endangered, the leap second might have a practical successor soon. //
One of the leading thinkers on how humans track time has a big, if simple, proposal for dealing with leap seconds: Don't worry about them. Do leap minutes instead, maybe one every half-century or so.
"We all need to relax a little bit," said Judah Levine, leader of the Network Synchronization Project in the Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to The New York Times. Leap seconds—when coordinated, near-impeccable atomic time is halted for one second to synchronize with the Earth's comparatively erratic movements—are a big headache, especially to computer technology.
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (IBWM) has already voted to eliminate leap seconds entirely by 2035, or at least how they are currently implemented. Levine plans to submit a paper outlining a "leap minute," timed to the next World Radiocommunications Conference held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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