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Will you be alive in 2038 to see Cheryl's video finally be removed from the iPlayer?


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Old 14-06-2010, 22:49
:]Hannah
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This is hilarious
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...e_Live_Lounge/
on that link click 'programme information'

Lol, it's a bit of an odd date!! 2038!

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Old 14-06-2010, 23:37
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LOL!!! If that's not a sign she's made it then I don't know what is
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Old 14-06-2010, 23:49
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It's not actually that odd of a date, it has quite a significant meaning in computer science.

The date is stored as a unix timestamp - the number of seconds since 00:00 on Jan 1st 1970.

If you store that value as a 32bit signed integer, the greatest date it can hold is in January 2038.

So they've basically set it to expire as far into the future as the system will allow, i.e. never.

Now obviously come 2038 the system will crash (left as is, obviously) as the time will loop back around to 1901 or whatever - this is the Y2K38 bug.

/sorry for being a boring geek
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Old 15-06-2010, 00:16
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will i be alive in 28 years time?.... id be 81!!!! the last thing id want to hear is that useless bint.
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Old 15-06-2010, 00:19
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I'll be 45
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Old 15-06-2010, 00:26
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I'd be 48
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Old 15-06-2010, 04:14
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random

just a mis type thats all
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Old 15-06-2010, 16:30
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I'll be 45 too
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Old 15-06-2010, 20:21
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I'll be 58, but I wouldn't hear it cos I wouldn't click on it!
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