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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:24:49 -0700 (MST)
Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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
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or previous employers.