Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I still remember the time when 1st of January 2020 was so far in the future that it seemed it will never happen.


I did data recovery on an external drive in 2011. It was pretty bad but I only needed a dozen files or so, rest was backed up. One of the files restored had a borked creation time in May 2020. For some reason I never fixed that, so whenever I accessed that folder and sort by date, that file would be at the top. This is will stop happening soon. I grew so fond of this quirk that I'm almost sad.


    touch -d 'Jan 01 2030'
I initially thought 2099 but 2030 lets you poke it again in ten years :>


We keep telling us the same about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem


I've been booking meetings for 2020 and it still looks weird.


It's probably going to take me about 2 months after the new year stop writing/entering "2019" on forms. And checks. And anything else that calls for a date.

Pretty much the same thing happens to me every year.


I recently decided to switched to a 36 hour week. I accidentally said I wanted the switch to start on January first 2019 rather than 2020...

Things seem to have been fixed, but it was a scary mistake to make.



I guess that what happens when we get old. We're going to have to push back that shiny future to 2050 (at least).




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: