Y10K Problem
June 15th, 02007 by Kevin KellyI just noticed there is a Wikipedia entry for the 10,000-year problem. That is, most computer operating systems today are not ready for the additional digit the year 10,000 will require in dates. This idea was sort of a joke at Long Now during the Y2K “problem” at the year 2,000. The Wikipedia entry is not treating it like a joke.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Great find, Kevin.
Note the link in the 10K article for “Holocene Calendar,” which adds 10,000 years to current dates, and eliminates most BC type dates. Thus 2007 is 12007 HE — HE stands for “Holocene Epoch” and “Human Era,” based on the geological current era and time frame of human civiilzation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
July 24th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I googled webcrawled it and got the official Gaiaist website. They use the Holocene calendar as the official chronology of their calendar.
http://temple-gaia.org/
September 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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