I mean, after all Dick Clark is Dead. We can't ring in the New Year anymore!
I'll probably watch my Laptop's NTP Daemon flop-over this year... and hopefully it'll continue. Since we don't have anymore Clarkium-Ricium... to replenish the stock, it might just "end"... unless it is Time-T that we really have to worry about.
Of course... then Mon, 18 Jan, 2038 at 23:14:07 EST will be our demise. Hopefully we will all be on 64-bit time by then. Yeah... Dern AT&T Engineers... couldn't they at least have planned ahead a bit? Sheesh!
I mean, they in the immortal style words of Bill Gates:
Kernigan, Ritchie, Thompson, McIlroy, Lesk and Ossanna designed it: 32-bit Time should be enough for anyone!
So who invented the 32-bit integer so we know who really deserves the blame?
Appears those that created the Signed Integer in the C language might be the culprits, but that is hard to believe.
Of course, once we switch to 64-bit... Sun, 04 Dec, 292,277,026,596 at 11:30:08 EST... BOOM. That is assuming the Earth's crust hasn't moved enough to move Michigan into a different Time-Zone. Or the heat death of the universe hasn't happened already.