-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to David M. Dowdle on 2/13/2009 8:45 PM: > clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038" +%s > date: invalid date `Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038' > clouded:~> > > 03:14:07 is apparently when 32bit time_t hits MAXINT
Yep, and that's why many newer systems are switching to 64-bit time_t. But changing the size of size_t is an ABI difference, so not one that you can easily port to older kernels. > I'd rank this as low priority, but people doing things like 30 year > mortages will be hitting this already. Not a bug in coreutils, but an inherent limitation in your kernel. Just like the old limitation that you couldn't have a file larger than 2GB until you upgraded to a kernel with 64-bit off_t support. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmWX84ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYADuQCfQPQT5VjqnZVakHQNEir5+dcA rmEAoKr/RhlZyRR4IcquH0807b8WaUEF =P2sa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
