@mia@movsw.0x0.st OH god... Yes...
Let's see in 13 years how many banks will just fail to do any banking stuff because of the 2038 problem

@Erpel @mia Ah, they're probably using all sorts of awful hacks that depend on the limited length, aren't they?

(Otherwise just substituting would handle the majority of the code modification needed.)

@lispi314@udongein.xyz @mia@movsw.0x0.st There will be porbably three types of banks that we see at 19th January 2038, 03:14:07 Uhr UTC

1. Nothing happens because they use a modern software in the background
2. Nothing happens because the IT handled that problem in advance
3. The COBOL system fails big time and all transactions for X days are halted because of it, creating a big mess

We will see in a little less then 13 years I guess

@Erpel @lispi314 i predict a lot of local governments in the US will be affected, judging by the fact that i receive mail from the city of seattle with the town name’s umlauts mangled through… no, not iso-8859-1. codepage 437.

@mia@movsw.0x0.st @lispi314@udongein.xyz Most of the nuclear arsenal stuff of the US military is 70s tech.
Lets hope that the 2038 problem won't do funny stuff with the nukes.