[26312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Steenbergen)
Thu Dec 23 02:38:59 1999
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
Message-ID: <19991223023707.F16741@above.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199912230647.XAA58298@typo.org>; from Wayne Bouchard on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:47:23PM -0700
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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:47:23PM -0700, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
>
> > 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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