A Conversation for Unfinished Business of the Century
What are we going to call the next decade?
Is mise Duncan Posted Nov 26, 1999
You call it the noughties if you want...I shall be calling it the Rolo decade (sponsorship permitting) for the decade in which the digits roll over.
I have noticed that the Romans are going to run into copyright issues in 2010 - as MMX is an Intel copyright!
Also, on a related but ever more insane tack - the second of Febuary 2020 is a plaindrome regardless of your "International date settings". In contrast to the millenium bug, this will ahve the opposite effect - badly written (non-international aware) software will suddenly work 
What are we going to call the next decade?
The Cow Posted Nov 29, 1999
... and then not work the following day!
Another scary date is in January 2036 or something, when all Unixes run out of dates, and go back to 1910...
What are we going to call the next decade?
Is mise Duncan Posted Nov 29, 1999
.. and July 6th 2079, when the Sybase "shortdatetime" data type expires.
What are we going to call the next decade?
The Jester (P. S. of Village Idiots, Muse of Comedians, Keeper of Jokes, Chef and Seraph of Bad Jokes) LUG @ A458228 Posted Nov 30, 1999
And 2050, when Windows 95 thinks it's 1950.
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What are we going to call the next decade?
The Cow Posted Nov 30, 1999
Oh fun.
At least we knew that the millenium bug was something to really look out for... not just spurious dates caused by strange freaks of programming and strange powers-of-two seconds past 1970.
What are we going to call the next decade?
Is mise Duncan Posted Nov 30, 1999
One good thing about the millennium bug is that it has raised the profile of the whole "date" side of things - ten years ago it was quite ordinary to assume that because a program worked now, it would always work.
Hopefully there will be a massive power blackout and post that, management will be persuaded that backup and data mirroring are not incidental either.
What are we going to call the next century?
kenk Posted Jan 25, 2000
Much as i disklike the idea of calling groups of ten years by a name, it seems to be something people wanna do, so I suggest:
200x - twen-aughts
201x - twen-tens
202x - twen-twens
203x - twen-thirties
etc, etc...
What are we going to call the next century?
The Cow Posted Jan 28, 2000
Usually twenty+twenties, surely
What are we going to call the next century?
Merry Posted Jan 30, 2000
twenty+twenties is surely OK as long as you have a perfect vision of what it's all about.........
What are we going to call the next century?
kenk Posted Jan 31, 2000
yes, *usually*. I was going for something a bit snappier, tho.
twentwens is half the syllables of twenty-twenties.
Try
http://www.namethedecade.com/
for more ideas.
What are we going to call the next century?
Woodpigeon Posted Feb 19, 2000
How many of you have got into a conversation recently where you said something like - "In the nineties this used to happen, but now in the um, um, uummmm, now in the present, this is the situation".
Maybe we should just call the current decade the "Ums".
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