Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 May 2005 16:25:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day |
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On Fri, 13 May 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:36:23 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: >> >>> Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 EST 2038 >>> Fri Dec 13 15:46:09 EST 1901 >> ^^^^^ are UTC and GMT that far apart? Leap seconds? WTF? > > The heck with leap seconds - why did it warp back to 1901 rather > than to 1969/1970? ;) > Negative time. Will go as far below Unix birthdate as above. That's why there was a suggestion in the Y2K days of changing time_t to unsigned and biasing it off the Unix birthdate. But the pedants complained that Unix files, created before Unix existed, would have the wrong date.
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