Grant Edwards wrote: > > Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?) > to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying > representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix > requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still > going to overflow in 2038 -- same as it ever was.
This is correct: mh@n ~ $ date -u -d @2147483647 Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038 mh@n ~ $ date -u -d @2147483648 date: invalid date '@2147483648' <crystal ball mode>Will there be any fix until then, or will I have to reinstall all my 32bit Gentoo systems with 64bit kernels?</crystal ball mode> Is there actually a "how-to" to replace a 32-bit-Gentoo by a 64-bit- Gentoo? Do I have to format the harddisk (and rebuild everything from scratch), oder can I just keep all the (postfix, apache...) configuration in /etc, all my personal stuff in /usr/local and all the data in /var and just install a 64-bit kernel in /boot? (Of course, with all its dependencies like kernel modules and "system-near" binaries and all that.) -Matt
