Re: Windows 49er Bug
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> > Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a
> > year?
> A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices.
Wrong limit. There's a counter in some MS-written systems (which includes
OS/2, as I recall) that counts milliseconds since the computer booted.
Since it's a 32-bit counter, it rolls over in about 49 days. Nasty things
can (but don't necessarily) happen when it rolls over. ISTR that there is
a similar counter in Linux that rolls over in about 400 days, but I've
been having trouble remembering things lately.
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