From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 15:19:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27773 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA27768 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id PAA20537; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA24246; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:54:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199707152154.OAA24246@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliancy In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Chen at "Jul 16, 97 09:08:06 am" To: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: anne-randle.itsd@vin1.dudley.gov.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Jonathan Chen: > On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, A. Randle wrote: > [[ ... ]] > > End-user software written on them are another story; you have to ask > the developer(s) involved. /* Hopefully, anyone savvy enough to write for Unix-esque systems, thought of this. But then, one never knows... */ > > On the other hand, there may be a problem when the Epoch rollover > occurs (I think this, occurs somewhere around 2036), if the system > is still 32 bit based. > > Within 5 years, I'd bet that most of the unix world has gone to 64-bits. At work, we're doing a 64-bit port of BSD, which allows time-backwards into the Jurrasic (I believe), and forward when humans will probably be extinct. ---I still think we ought to use a 128-bit timestamp, tho. Just because. Nutshell: whoever is intelligent enough to use unix probably needn't worry. gary kline > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix