Andrew: I cant see you writing an article about that one Andrew: much more importantly, (but I doubt you care), sun bought mysql Andrew: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/15/1928213&from=rss <http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/15/1928213&from=rss> me: yo Andrew: great topic for your blog today Andrew: hey Andrew: that number only goes up to 2^32 Andrew: so you can store dates as one number instead fo a day, month, year, etc Andrew: its a 32 bit integer that represent the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight january 1st 1970 Andrew: unix systems (basically 99% of business systems) use a format called posix to store time Andrew: its simple Andrew: the y238k bug one? me: I'm not entirely sure what this means me: word Andrew: or just hit the tilde key and see if you get a console Andrew: do a google search for oblivion console Andrew: usually, you have to start the game with a console flag and then the key is usually ` Andrew: its not standard me: yeah Andrew: are you asking how to get to the oblivion console? Andrew: what does that mean? me: wonderful. hey, how do I get into console to type in games? Andrew: which means, unix software that calculates dates 30 years into the future will start to crash Andrew: tomorrow crosses the threshold of exactly 30 years until this date Andrew: just like y2k Andrew: we run out of seconds tuesday, january 19th, 2038 at 3:14:07 am