🚀 go-pugleaf

Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:

: >UNIX is scheduled to run out of "time", as it stands in 2038.  However, 
: >that gives people a bit of time to work around it.  The C programming 
: >language neatly gets around an integer time problem by saying that time_t 
: >is a constantly increasing value...It is NOT guaranteed to be an int or a 
: >long int...just ever-growing.  

: There's not much to `getting around it'; UNIX itself does most of
: its date work in type time_t, so just increasing it from 32 to 64
: bits will do the trick quite nicely for some time to come. It can't
: hurt any more than moving some of the inode stuff to 64 bits,
: really....

True, although on our UNIX system there is a 

#define time_t int

or some such...they'll have to do something about that <grin>, but for 
the most part...shouldn't be a problem, unless you have people writing 2 
digit dates still.  (Are there people that ACTUALLY still do this????)

Cheers,

B.

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   Brian P. Hampson                  ASL Analytical Service Laboratories Ltd
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