On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:16:02PM -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
>> On 02/15/2015 06:06 AM, Steven Honeyman wrote:
>> >On 15 February 2015 at 07:38, Explorer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>This is a trivial change to allow a 5-digit-or-more year in 'ls' timestamp
>> >>output.
>> >>
>> >>Signed-off-by: Kang-che Sung <explorer09-at-gmail.com>
>> >
>> >You realise we're good for almost 8000 more years? :D
>>
>> I guess it can already happen if your clock is grossly miscalibrated, though?
>
> Only on systems with 64-bit time_t. Otherwise years past 2038 don't
> exist. :-)

BTW:

Current kernels internally use 64-bit nanosecond time,
and they refuse to set date such that it overflows such counters.
I failed to set date to year 2300. 2200 worked.
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