From owner-freebsd-current  Sat Jan  2 08:40:16 1999
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01633
          for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 08:40:16 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from fourier.physics.purdue.edu (fourier.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.43])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01508
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 08:40:12 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu)
Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost)
	by fourier.physics.purdue.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02889;
	Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:30:49 GMT
	(envelope-from jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu)
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? 
In-Reply-To: <6721.915294043@critter.freebsd.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990102112632.2884A-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


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