progress reports

[cellio]

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.)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Thank you! Also, thank you -- you know what you did. :D

[cellio]

waves :-)

[thnidu]

Not yet.

A Spell for the Millennium to the tune of Jingle Bells

__Double L, double M, Just ten letters long. That's how to spell "millennium", Remember by this song.

One thousand years exactly, The meaning of the word: Year One began the first one, Two-thousand-one the third.__

[cellio]

Gah. I do actually know that; I meant to type 20% and got distracted by the other "21", I guess. Fixing now.

[jennyaxe]

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.