[26314] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Thu Dec 23 04:00:40 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:53:57 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>
To: Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>
Cc: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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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.
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Richard Steenbergen wrote:
> 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
>
> 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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