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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2021-04-14 10:05 pm
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2021 is 29% complete.

The 21st century is 20% complete (and a smidge). Wait, wasn't the Y2K thing not that long ago?

You're welcome.

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(The original version said 21% complete in the second line, which is clearly wrong. Fixed now.)

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[personal profile] jennyaxe 2021-04-22 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
37 % complete is going to be fun for everyone still on a 32-bit architecture. And given that there are quite a few systems still running very old Windows, especially embedded software and/or hospital equipment, I'm not convinced we aren't going to run into more troubles than we did with Y2K.

Y2K was easy to explain to people. Trying to get non-techies' brains around the idea of time represented as a 32-bit unsigned integer starting at 1970... probably less so.