Year 2038 problem (was Re: Year 2000 & Debian)
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:51:07 +1000 Hamish Moffatt <hmoffatt@mail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not
>> find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two
>> digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too.
>>
>> The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS
>> and the PC clock chip on some systems storing the century as two
>> digits. The Linux program that reads the hardware clock into the
>> software clock can make up for that. An update of this program was
>> just released and will be well-deployed before it is needed.
>
>One local trade newspaper or magazine recently ran a story on
>the Unix 2038 problem. Really getting in early here folks ...
By that time everything will be 64-bit and the problem will
disappear. We won't have to worry about it again until ("bc"
calculation pending...) the year 292,271,023,045. I don't think I'll
worry too much about that!
Gary Hennigan
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