Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:45:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t Message-ID: <199808210045.RAA07257@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808210035.TAA17016@unix.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Aug 20, 98 07:35:25 pm
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> > > > If time_t were 48 bits, when would we be running into *that* limit? > > > > > > In about four million years. I think all of us will probably have to > > > newfs our drives by then. :-) > > > > In 40 years, none of the COBOL programs we write will still be running... > > that's what they said 40 years ago... > > some pointy-haired boss somewhere will survive for the sole purpose of > proving you wrong... Guide: "We have spent 40,000,000 Zorkmids recreating a 20th Century computer here at the Flood Control Dam #2 Imperial Computer Museum; unfortunately some idiot set the clock to the correct time and it destroyed itself. Now moving past the smoking crater, on your right, you will see some fossilized magnetic media; magnetic media was used to store data before the invention of paper..." Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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