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Re: Debian and the millenium bug



> > Where did you get this 4000 years figure anyway?  33 bits would just
> 
> Oh, having become hopelessly confused by the original posting, I came
> up with some additional errors (the 16x10^18 is just as wrong, too;
> 584,942,417,355 is more like it...)  Comes of posting to debian lists
> in my sleep :-)
> 
I got

292,271,023,017 years ~=
     ( 2^62 / (60sec/min) / (60min/hr) / (24hr/day) / (365.25day/yr) -
                                                         (28 year since 1970)

It only has 5 digits of accuracy at best, but that's what I put on the
web page (news.html). :)

- Jay


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