Peter Rice <pmr at sanger.ac.uk> mentioned:
> Come to think of it - what does a "millenium countdown clock"
> show when Y2K does arrive? Reset to a Y3K countdown perhaps?
Perhaps there should be a more generic
"problem with dates"
clock. There's a list of the hyped date errors somewhere I
saw. Among others they include:
Feb 29th does exist in 2000
Jan. 19th, 2038 contains second (32 bit) MAXINT under C/unix
(start of "epoch 1")
Or even more generic, "problems with fixed field widths" like
the estimated year:
we run out of PDB identifiers (2004)
the US runs out of 10 digit phone numbers (2015??)
Don't think the PDB one is likely to be on a mass market product :)
Andrew
dalke at bioreason.com
