Banks and other financial institutions have long used math packages that made 2035 moot. Loans and risk computations frequently go 50 years or longer. I worked for algorithmics for 10 years. We had a C++ customized package.
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 4:09 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com> wrote: > On 3/8/21 2:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I love this discussion. I've been involved with computer time since the > early 1970s. While at burger King I wrote a standardized set of time > utilities in cobol. Later at Digital I was responsible for the utmp > libraries, and the standard test failed. The issue was that the > > standard test used a future time beyond 2035. Back then tine_t was a > signed 32 bit integer > > I bought a house with a 30-year mortgage in late 2008. My first house, > actually. > > All of the things that people talk about being afraid of with being a new > home-buyer..., > well..., none of them compared to the sense of dread that I felt when I > looked at > the end-date on the mortgage and asked myself: > > What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a > computer > where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then? > > So I pay a little extra each month. > Hopefully I can have the account closed and expunged before that point ;p > > -- > Connect with me on the GNU social network: < > https://status.hackerposse.com/rozzin> > Not on the network? Ask me for an invitation to a social hub! > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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