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 Message 12 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: conversion between lossless codecs 
 03 Jan 22 18:03:01 
 
TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0100
CHRS: UTF-8 2
PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221
MSGID: 2:280/464 61d32cdc
REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet f8132b79
Hi August,

On 2022-01-03 11:54:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> X was supposed to be randomish number, not necessarily
 WvV>> the roman numeral for 10 ! ;-)

 WvV>> But indeed 2038 is a real problem for fidonet...

 AA> But, I would think that iTunes (as a local program, acting as a
 AA> player, converter, burner, database) will not necesssarily fail
 AA> to operate if the pc date is rolled back to "20:45:52 on
 AA> Friday, 13 December 1901", will it?

You never know until it happens. ;-)

But regarding "break down" I was thinking more about your old hardware not
surviving another X years...

Bye, Wilfred.

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