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SubjectRe: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
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.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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