Talk:Unix billennium

If this is describing something real, can anyone add any context? Tokerboy 22:26 Dec 18, 2002 (UTC)

I call it the gigasecond bug. "Billennium" is not a word as far as I am concerned. -phma

Agreed here. The sources make no mention of the name billenium. There is no source for the name billenium which refers to this event. It seems to be the name of a science fiction novel. The name of the page needs to be changed. The first reference calls it 'S1G' which is a play on 'Y2K'. Bu gee (talk) 19:40, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

I would think it would be a portmanteau of "binary millenium", which makes it a slightly more reasonable term. Bluej100 (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Given it's "millenium" -- one n -- isn't this at the wrong spelling anyway? -- Tarquin 11:56 Jan 1, 2003 (UTC)

"millennium" is correct. It's from Latin mille anni; the rafsi of annus is enn. -phma

Oops. you're right. I did a search here & didn't check to see they were redirects. "millennium" is one of those words I have a blind spot for :( -- Tarquin

"Billesecum"?

"Billesecum" has no google hits except for this article. Does it have some sort of plausible derivation, or did an editor just try desperately to wedge something meaning "second" into the already ugly word "billennium"? RSpeer 03:57, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Number

Wouldn't it have been more of a problem at 2^30 seconds? Rich Farmbrough, 16:55 10 December 2007 (GMT).

more info

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Sep/98 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.213.52.170 (talk) 09:00, 20 October 2011 (UTC)