Re: Year 2000 & Debian
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after
> Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by
> typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be
> recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better
> than POSIX, C, and Unix by 2038.
That's what they said when they wrote the PC BIOS nearly twenty years ago!
:-)
Rich.
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