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Subject: TOD clock and the year 2043

What about asking IBM to expand the TOD clock with 4 bytes to the left?
If we choose the big bang as the start point, we still have about 19/20
of the cycle time left, and before the clock wraps, at least the earth
will have ceased to exist.


    Wilhelm Becker               Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie,
                                 Und gruen des Lebens goldner Baum
    Institut fuer Physik
    Universitaet Dortmund          Goethe, Faust I

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