From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 07:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA28735 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA28722 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA32387; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:36:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:36:38 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605211436.AA32387@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Brett Glass" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future? In-Reply-To: <9604208326.AA832626871@ccgate.infoworld.com> References: <9604208326.AA832626871@ccgate.infoworld.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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