[111844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Feb 13 21:24:00 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: cmadams@hiwaay.net (Chris Adams)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:23:42 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <20090214013356.GB1513611@hiwaay.net> from "Chris Adams" at Feb
13, 2009 07:33:56 PM
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Once upon a time, Nathan Malynn <neito@nerdramblingz.com> said:
> > Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now?
>
> Unix/POSIX systems use "time_t" to store the base time counter, which is
> seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). Most platforms still
> use a 32 bit time_t for compatibility.
>
> However, it does appear that at some point, 64 bit Linux systems
> switched to a 64 bit time_t, so I can only assume others are switching
> as well. Hopefully, the 32 bit systems (at least that have to count
> seconds) will be mostly gone in another 29 years.
FreeBSD used a 64-bit time_t for the AMD64 port pretty much right away.
On the flip side, it used a 32-bit time_t for the Alpha port. I guess
someone predicted "it wouldn't be a problem."
Nowhere near as annoying a problem as the variability of the size of
size_t.
... JG
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