Re: linux clock overun in 2038 - a solution
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
> we also just set the 0
> to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last long enough,
no need to change the epoch! And it would break yet more software.
Hamish
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