Re: Year 2000 compliance

[Alexander <vulture@abac.com>]

Hi...

Any and all UNIX systems are fully Y2K compliant, as long as the hardware
they run on is. However, their time_t value (UNIX time is represented in
seconds since 00:00 Jan 1 1970) will overflow sometime in the 2030s I
think. After that time_t will have to be expanded to 64 bits and all
programs using it recompiled. Not exactly as hard as rewriting billions of
lines of code; instead just modifying a single library header and
compiling some stuff.

Alex

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 servis@purdue.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:24 -0500 (EST)
> From: servis@purdue.edu
> To: rick@netleaf.com
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance
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> *-Rick Fadler (23 Jul)
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> | Does anyone have any information on this?
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> 
> http://www.debian.org/news#19980104
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