[aaron_m04]

> [...] but in businesses where there are old, legacy systems run by people who have a modern attitude to software ownership, things will fail because those businesses won't see importance of the threat.

How common will that be, though? I would expect that "cheap and disposable" software would mean most software in the year 2038 would be recently written, which would mean the programmers would be aware of the impending 32-bit rollover issue.

[cookingrobot]

On the one hand, most programmers are writing at a higher level, and probably have no ability to fix or even work around a date rollover issue.

On the other hand, a few fixes at lower levels will correct it for everyone above them.