Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 01:10:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> Cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliancy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970718010951.549D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <970715203700.24408cb0@wofford.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Dan Welch wrote: > I'm trying to reason the roll-over year from what you said: > unsigned: 2^32 seconds = 136 years ==> 2106 > signed: 2^31 seconds = 68 years ==> 2038 > I can get your number with 2^30.5 I think, but that makes no sense. > > So how did you get year 2018? Brain failure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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