From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 03:47:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA16113 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 03:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA16104 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 03:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0uLotA-000QYPC; Tue, 21 May 96 12:42 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA24049; Tue, 21 May 1996 12:31:30 +0200 Message-Id: <199605211031.MAA24049@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:31:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199605210131.LAA23659@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 21, 96 11:01:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > > Brett Glass stands accused of saying: >> >> 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. Nah, those of us left in 2038 will just bump it to 64 bits. That'll be good for the next 10**11 years or so, even if we leave it signed. Greg