and a third time because i left an r out of 3rd.

technically its the 3d millennium. sorry i had to be pedantic a second time.

besides its my turn to be pedantic.

And replying to self, that I just noticed it should be 21st century and 2nd Millennium.

21st millennium would put us out way past human extinction into the era where the slime-mold of AI slop spreads – without any humans remaining – into the furthest corners of the universe.

Really needs the first part of sentence to see the reason. I guess it was a sneak in that 2000 was the end of the last millennium, and century.

“A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium”…”ensure that at the dawn of the year 2001, there’d be nothing left but the smoldering wreck of once great societies. ”

So, the Y2K rectification work prevented the first year of the new millennium in 2001, occuring in a dystopian horror rather than BAU.

(That dystopian horror was to come a few decades later)

NTPd has supported “Era” rollover since about 2010, so for most of the world the unsigned int rolls over to zero, the era increments by 1, and the 70 offset is automatically adjusted for.

The BSD 2.11 version might be affected. The rest of us not really.
I say “might” only because I can’t find a version number on the thing. The patch here only patches a single device that used to be built-in to ntpd.
(Personally I thought WWV had already stopped broadcasting, today I learned)

It’d presumably take at least a few months for the carnage to really take effect :)