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I don't think you can consider any business real (no matter the size) unless there is at least 2 people playing a rousing game of "pass the spreadsheet". So I'm not laughing.
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There are also several powerful addins out there that she can buy and use.
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I must admit that this is a new one to me (every day's a school day!)
Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia
Personally, I'm planning on being either retired, dead or both by then, but is anyone preparing for it?
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I'll be in the 60s. I don't expect to be dead so soon, and I suppose I will still be in active (retirement in my generation is going to be a bit more difficult)
About the preparation... I am going to investigate a bit and if I start something from the scratch, then I'll try to avoid it.
In Legacy mode... I think I will wait to see if it is really such a bad thing.
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I'm probably fooling myself if I think I'll be retired by then, to be honest, but death might present the chance to take a bit of time off work!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"For example, the bug makes some Android devices crash and not restart when the time is changed to that date.[6]"
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Have you noticed the 2036 BUG in you link?
The Network Time Protocol has a related overflow issue, which manifests itself in 2036, rather than 2038. The 64-bit timestamps used by NTP consist of a 32-bit part for seconds and a 32-bit part for fractional second, giving NTP a time scale that rolls over every 232 seconds (136 years) and a theoretical resolution of 2−32 seconds (233 picoseconds). NTP uses an epoch of 1 January 1900. The first rollover occurs in 2036, prior to the UNIX year 2038 problem.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I hadn't. Well spotted.
Chaos comes sooner than we think ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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digimanus wrote: every 232 seconds (136 years)
Last time I checked, there were more than 232 seconds in 136 years!
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- Homer
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It would seem that just the OS's will need to be updated. .Net code, for example, is high enough in the programming levels that my code won't care, as long as the DateTime object works in .Net.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It will be interesting to see how many 32 bit systems are still in existence in 2038. By then, I would imagine the majority of Unix-like systems would have switched to a 64 bit epoch.
Though, even with 64 bit, I guess we'll have to deal with the problem again in the year 292,277,026,596...I might miss that one 
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Back in 1999, this was the issue that my coworkers and I kept trying to tell people would be a much more pressing situation. Hopefully, most 32-bit architecture will be retired by then.
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It will affect digital TV as well - cable, terrestrial and satellite as well.
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... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
It would be a lot more peaceful there after each year's new wave of student expulsions ... and we might actually improve the quality of the next generation of developers.
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I find it not evil, I find it even a good suggestion.
Each Homework question answered with a unique thing in the code, and then you can spot the students copying from the internet (and send them home)
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An AI Student Assignment CP Page Sniffer Teachers Aid
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I get the feeling that very few of the homework questions are coming from students with good teachers. Any teacher worth their salary should start the first lecture by telling them not to waste time posting their homework questions on CodeProject, SO etc. The bad teachers could not care less.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
No.
Failing companies should be allowed to fail. Teachers have the same rights.
OriginalGriff wrote: It would be a lot more peaceful there after each year's new wave of student expulsions ... and we might actually improve the quality of the next generation of developers.
Any student who wants to can become a member and benefit from it. But I oppose the idea of having paid teachers offloading their work here
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I think you misunderstand: the idea is the teachers answer their own homework and then kick the cheating kids of the course.
At the moment they are getting us to do their work for them!
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The kids are trying to get an education here, because the teachers aren't providing. Blocking one of the few places where they can get ACTUAL help and where people take time to explain (looking at you Griff!) will make things worse.
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No one said nothing about blocking the site.
Nobody said a thing about students coming here to learn.
The full point is about lazy / incompetent students coming here to get their homework done and responsibility of those "bad" teachers.
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Nelek wrote: Nobody said a thing about students coming here to learn.
Griff wrote: ... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
Nelek wrote: The full point is about lazy / incompetent students coming here to get their homework done and responsibility of those "bad" teachers.
You are blaming the students for being lazy; coming to a forum where you get burned down and trying to find an answer is not lazy in my book. Still there are a lot of homework-related questions on the forum (I never visit Q&A) where the student has not been explained what System.IO does, and has some kind of task or homework that includes just that.
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