Debian in the News: The Next Millennium Headache
August 13th, 1998
Debian GNU/Linux has been mentioned in the Wired News section. Michael Stutz wrote an article entitled The Next Millennium Headache which can be found at http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/14390.html.The Next Millennium Headache
by Michael Stutz12.Aug.98.PDT
Sometime in the future, the day and date settings deep inside millions of computers will roll over to a value that the machines don't understand. The likely upshot: system crashes in critical systems such as air traffic control and banking.But don't panic — we still have almost 40 years to deal with it.