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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:41:05 -0600
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t 
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At 10:21 AM 8/13/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
 
>Read the article:
>
>  Certainly by 2038, Unix 'time_t' will be 64 bits or more,
>  assuming Unix survives in some form," said Dennis Ritchie,
>  co-author of the Unix operating system. 
>
>If you have nothing else to worry about for the next 40 years, I'm sure 
>we can find you something more useful to do.  8)

I'd kind of like to do financial projections for my retirement and not
have the calculations blow up, as they do now.

--Brett Glass


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