Good thing we use the decimal system or we would have never noticed this. Wake me up when it rolls over the 2^31 limit, that should be an interesting day. Much more interesting than y2k.
And I don't see what incidence noticing this has on anything, besides a few posts about it on the internet and a feeling in a lot of people that this is "special". My first reaction was thinking that this is cool, but after careful consideration I realize how pointless this is. Let's get excited over actual events. News.
Oh, was I overanalysing again?
Nothing wrong in observing things like that; there is such a thing as little amusement.
Thankfully a 64bit integer clock gets us past the year 292 billion.
Also commodity hardware/software is much more common nowdays than before 2000. Back then you were reluctant to get rid of something you paid millions for because it was custom hardware running a custom OS with custom Cobol on it.
Nowdays you have commodity hardware running continuously updated OSes with custom Java on it. Thankfully Sun can update the JVM and MySQL and hopefully your date problems are solved.
Or do you mean we learned that planes won't fall out of the sky due to date problems, and we shouldn't overreact next time?