Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:24:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future? Message-ID: <199605210424.VAA29828@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605210131.LAA23659@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 21, 96 11:01:52 am
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> > Just read yet another doomsaying article about the Millenium and the havoc > > it will wreak with much computer software. As I recall, D-day for UNIX > > is different -- the crisis comes a little bit into the next century. > > > > Has FreeBSD been updated so that its "seconds since the start of time" > > clock will not overflow? > > If we're still using FreeBSD in 2038, then we can worry about fixing > programs that assume that time_t is signed. Once we do that, we buy another > 68 years, and I expect to be _dead_ before that runs out. Given the current curve for increase in human life expectancy, we can expect the rate of increase to be 1 year per year starting in 2027. So (barring accident), we will be pounding on *your* door, not the door of the poor schmuck who takes over after you're dearly departed. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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