New Year 2025: Review of solemn and chaotic silver nights!

On January 2, 2025, the Remscheider General-Anzeiger (RGA) looked back on various New Year's events of past years. Especially the focus was on the 2000 turn of the year, which was expected by many people with great concern about the so-called millennium bug. However, the reality was far less dramatic: the RGA from this day headed "Average New Year's Eve instead of computer-gau" and reported that the feared catastrophic computer collapse failed to do. An anecdote about a concerned citizen who asked the municipal utilities about the whereabouts of their precautionary candles, illustrated the general confusion about this topic.

Another review affected the New Year 1975. On this day, Tüpitter reported that the Borner belonged to Remscheid, which was a significant change for the region. 1700 inhabitants and 1000 hectares of land moved from the dissolved Rhein-Wupper-Kreis to Remscheid, while Wermelskirchen were assigned to the Rheinisch-Bergische district and Hückeswagen as well as Radevormwald to the Oberberg district. This resulted in the RGA appeared in five cities, three counties and two government districts from this point in time.

further New Year reviews

The New Year review around 1950 was the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dedicated to Siegfried Schönborn, who was chief physician of the municipal hospitals in Remscheid from 1919 to 1946. The RGA paid tribute to its significant merits as a researcher, doctor and hospital manager, even if the mention of his personal relationships with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen failed to

in 1925 Tüpitter reported a largely peaceful New Year's Eve, which was only disturbed by a dispute between a couple in the Kronenstrasse, in which the man bit the woman in the thumb. This incident led to a small human casserole, which was quickly dissolved by the police.

the Millennium bug and the year 2038 problem

In the same view of the Millennium bug, the solution to the year 2000 problem was also dealt with. This included the identification and adaptation of computer systems that had difficulties with date formats. Adjustments included software changes and the exchange of outdated programs. Despite the extensive work, false date representations occurred in some systems, and the estimated costs to fix the problem were between $ 300 and $ 600 billion. Ultimately, however, the year-20000 problem did not lead to the predicted disaster scenarios.

However, the year-2038 problem is imminent, which could occur on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:08 a.m. This problem could have traditional and more dramatic consequences than the Millennium bug. The reason for this lies in a counter that counts the seconds since January 1, 1970. This meter is implemented as a signed 32-bit number, which leads to an overflow that represents the date to December 13, 1901, 8:45:52 p.m. The year-2038 problem affects all systems that access data generated by the computer.