Kind of puzzled about timestamps

[jonhall80 at comcast.net]

I paid off my 30 year mortgage on November 29th, 2020 (two years early) thinking that it would be better not to carry any of it over to the next year.

Then I waited for all of the associated paperwork (escrow payment refunds for property tax, deed, etc.)  At the end of January I called the bank.

"Oh yes, it appears you have paid it off.   Well, it takes a little time."

Then the end of February I called again.

"Oh, yes, we can see the zero principal back in December....yes, you are right...any day now...."

Here it is, March 8th, 2021.

If I was two days late on a payment, they hounded me.

They are not using a computer.   They are using quill pens and parchment.

md
> On 03/08/2021 4:08 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 3/8/21 2:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I love this discussion. I've been involved with computer time since the early 1970s. While at burger King I wrote a standardized set of time utilities in cobol. Later at Digital I was responsible for the utmp libraries, and the standard test failed. The issue was that the 
> > standard test used a future time beyond 2035. Back then tine_t was a signed 32 bit integer
> 
> I bought a house with a 30-year mortgage in late 2008. My first house, actually.
> 
> All of the things that people talk about being afraid of with being a new home-buyer...,
> well..., none of them compared to the sense of dread that I felt when I looked at
> the end-date on the mortgage and asked myself:
> 
> 	What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a computer
> 	where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then?
> 
> So I pay a little extra each month.
> Hopefully I can have the account closed and expunged before that point ;p
> 
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