Y2K Bug May Actually Be 2016 Bug

Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 20:53.

We paid so much attention to dates, we may have overlooked how our computers translate numbers!

It may be 10 years after the year 2000, but several cellular carriers are being plagued by a bug that reports the year 2010 as the year 2016.

The issue has surfaced on Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, and is reportedly affecting incoming text messages for thousands of users on multiple carriers--most notably Sprint and Verizon.

T-Mobile's network seems unaffected.

The emergence of the bug has developers speculating as to whether or not it may be related to an erroneous translation from a computer numbering system known as "hexadecimal" or "base 16."

The number system most of us use in known as "decimal" or "base 10" which includes numbers 0-9. Hexadecimal adds "A-F."

The number "10" in hexadecimal equates to "16" in decimal.

[Read an online forum devoted to this issue]

[Fix for HTC devices]

[Problem affecting other phones worldwide]

it cant work that time

Submitted by wyane on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 22:20.

Yeah it could be possible but i dont think so that it will work that time too because many remedies are available to heal it.

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