[111852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Feb 14 08:01:26 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:01:12 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200902140815.n1E8FCgb032809@drugs.dv.isc.org> (Mark Andrews's
message of "Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:15:12 +1100")
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Mark Andrews:
> In message <ef3daad70902131706x2277ac5fp5cc243ffff354998@mail.gmail.com>, Nathan Malynn writes:
>> Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now?
>
> No. Even if they were you have 32 bit timestamps in lots
> of things that have to be handled even if time/time64 returns
> a 64 bit timestamp.
Those values can often be interpreted as unsigned, so we get another
68 years. By then, hopefully, the required protocol updates can be
fully automated.