PS. Btw, do you remember the date of 2035 year when UNIX systems can face the
REAL time problem? -
Well, of course, THAT one will be relatively easy to fix provided
someone perks up now.. Just declare the thing to be a 64 bit integer
and put off the problem for another couplea hundred years.
I doubt most computers will have a 35 year MTBF today. The only issue
is databases that have a half life of something like 60 years.
Actually a signed 64 bit time_t would last until the year 292271025015AD.
Existing time_t is signed. Existing programs sometimes can check (if
some_function <
0 then ERROR ). And we can predict a lot of programs refused to work since this
y2.038K at all.
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:37:07 -0500
From: Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>
To: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
Cc: Alex P. Rudnev <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Silly season
>
> > PS. Btw, do you remember the date of 2035 year when UNIX systems can face the
> > REAL time problem? -
>
> Well, of course, THAT one will be relatively easy to fix provided
> someone perks up now.. Just declare the thing to be a 64 bit integer
> and put off the problem for another couplea hundred years.Actually a signed 64 bit time_t would last until the year 292271025015AD.
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