Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:30:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>, sporkl@ix.netcom.com, "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K, Y 2038? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990102112632.2884A-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <6721.915294043@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901021035130.13070-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, Brian Feldman write > s: > > I'm not even worried about Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 CET 2038, because > I'll be busy getting a good nights sleep before the day before my > 72nd birthday, and I think anybody who is worried about it at this > point need a better grip on reality and history. > Look, in 1972, they never thought we'd run out of seconds. In the past decade, no one ever thought we'd hit year 2k. With the exception of the Mac people. Deal with it _now_ before the Y2038 Emergency is upon us and the world is freaking out over it. Perhaps an introduction of a 64 bit time, or larger under a different name, and have BSD start working over towards the new name now and deprecating the old time variable? I don't know the best way to do it, but if you shrug it off now, you will be doing _exactly_ what has been done before by programmers we want to strangle now. My $0.02 j.\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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