Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:36:38 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future? Message-ID: <9605211436.AA32387@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9604208326.AA832626871@ccgate.infoworld.com> References: <9604208326.AA832626871@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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<<On Mon, 20 May 96 14:54:36 PST, "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> said: > 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? As Henry Spencer once said: What will happen when the 32-bit Unix date goes negative in mid-January 2038 does not bear thinking about. If we are still using any flavor of UNIX at all in 2039, and that on 32-bit processors, then there are far more serious things to worry about. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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