Back about 200 000 000 seconds ago, I had the joy of attending a 'billenium' party -- complete with countdown clock.<p>The best part was that the party was inspired by a bug in our code caused by the rollover.<p>In short, there were time values stored in the DB as text -- everything in our DB was text -- and we were using the expedient route of doing simple string compares.<p>I won't bother explaining more.<p>But the cake was tasty!
This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I am, however, looking forward to turning 30 in two years. The big 2^30. Will I live to see 2^31? I don't know...<p>All this is assuming that time exists, of course.
Only about 30 years until it overflows, right?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem</a>