>>>>>I've been "officially" retired for several years now, although I take occasional assignments. I have never been busier... :-)
>>>>Hrm... it might be interesting to see if there arises a situation where VFP programmers coming out of retirement -- much like how a number of retired COBOL programmers that were brought out of retirement to deal with the Y2k crisis.
>>>>Personally I've some feeling of dread about 2038...
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>>>Is there any particular date-related thing that hits the ceiling then?
>>End of 32-bit Unix time (seconds since UT 1970.01.01 00:00:00 kept in 32-bit two's complement integer goes negative in 2038). Anything using same representation will end up with same or similar problem.
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>By then, I'll have forgotten about it at least 32767 times, or -1...

You are still thinking in 16 bits are you ?