Re: linux clock overun in 2038 - a solution
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.
Besides that then you wouldn't be able to keep track of dates before 2000
...
Will
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