Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Mathieu Bouchard <> | | Subject | Re: Y2K |
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> Neither the kernel nor the C runtime library cares anything about > the year 2000. It is just a number presented for humans to read as > the internal time is parsed into ss:mm:hh:mm:dd:yyyy, etc. > Problems will occur at (I think I remember) the year 2054 because > the time_t integer is not large enough. By that time, we should all have > 256-bit machines so the problem should go away.
precisely, when i was asked the same question, i calculated this and it is yr 2038, at which time unix will probably be forbidden. just by going to unsigned we could extend it to 2106, but going to 64-bit would last until yr 292,057,778,098, which should be ok for most uses.
matju
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