{"id":36,"date":"2008-01-16T06:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-01-16T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:18:27","slug":"y2k38-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Y2K38 bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2038 problem (also known as &#8220;Unix Millennium bug&#8221;) will cause problems because time is represented as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 on Unix and most other systems based on the C programming language.\u00c2\u00a0 The latest time that a 32-bit system can represent is January 19, 2038.<\/p>\n<p>The electric grid will go down, our toasters will explode, VCRs won&#8217;t work, the sewers will overflow, planes will crash!!!!!!!\u00c2\u00a0 What are we going to do???<\/p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;ve survived Y2K38, here comes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Year_2070_problem\">Y2.07K<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s hopeless, let&#8217;s just give up and go back to stone knives and bearskins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2038 problem (also known as &#8220;Unix Millennium bug&#8221;) will cause problems because time is represented as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 on Unix and most other systems based on the C programming language.\u00c2\u00a0 The latest time that a 32-bit system can represent is January 19, 2038. The electric grid will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}