Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:55:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: stephen@math.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 Message-ID: <199904200055.RAA02113@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <371BC97E.D7FBB349@math.missouri.edu> from Stephen Montgomery-Smith at "Apr 19, 99 07:25:34 pm"
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As I recall, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > > The computer industry seems to have shortened "Year 2000" to "Y2K". > > Isn't that the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the > > first place? > >................ > > While we are on the subject, as I understand it, UNIX has a year 2038 > problem coming up. After we get through the Y2K hurdle, shouldn't we > start to seriously tackle the year 2038 problem? I know it seems a > long way off, but then 2000 seemed a long way off in 1960. > > Just wondering if the internet will face serious problems in 2038 > because of all the `old' unix software still running it. I believe the assumption is that within 30 years, UNIXs will have moved time_t from a "long" to a "long long" (or "quad" or whatever). Most the commercial vendors (HP-UX, Solaris) have already done this as part of their 64-bit UNIX initiatives. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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