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From: Ben Kittridge <bkittridge@cfl.rr.com>
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Subject: misc/33400: Year 2038 bug
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>Number:         33400
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Year 2038 bug
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 31 15:40:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Kittridge
>Release:        5.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD Omega 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #3: Thu Nov 22 21:06:49 EST 2001     root@Omega:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
On Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 2038, the clock will change to Fri Dec 13 15:45:52 1901 because of the overflow of int (256^4/2).  And on 5.0-CURRENT, a lot of crazy stuff with happen, and the kernel will crash with a page fault when trying to restart.
>How-To-Repeat:
date 203801182214.07
or ctime(2147483647) and ctime(2147483648)
>Fix:
Not possible.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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