In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 09/08/2008
at 11:14 AM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>There's a Year 2038 problem coming (or already here for 30 year
>mortgages, to pick an example). UNIX-like operating systems have
>wraparound problems on January 19, 2038.
Actually not. It's systems with 32-bit *ix timers that have the problem,
but AFAIK there's nothing in the specifications that restricts the timer
to 32 bits.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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