Re: Year 2000/2038 compliance problem

[Harry (lists)]

on 4/12/01 9:03 AM, jud spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The internal Mac clock stores time in the format of the number of seconds
> since midnight 1/1/1904. It stores this date in a 32 bit integer. This
> integer will roll over, if I recall correctly, late Feb 2040.

Please read this:

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/TextIntlSvcs/DateTimeUtilities/da
tetimeutilities.html

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-94.html#HEAD
ING94-13

Especially for those claiming that non-gregorian dates are not well
supported:

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-95.html#HEAD
ING95-66
 
> Mac OSX is in much better shape, I believe it has at least a couple thousand
> years before this is an issue.

Does anyone actually know how OS X handles date and time, instead of
speculation?

Harry


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