On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, James wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, dreamwvr wrote:
>
>-Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: 
>-Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the 
>-earth in March, 2028.  Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being 
>-spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038.

This issue make me not too much happy... maybe they are wrong ;-).

>at least when that event does happen (the number of seconds since some time in the 
>70's
> > long int - that's right isn't it?) we'll have the source to fix it. Somehow a 2038 
>bug doesn't seem
>as catchy :)

There' s nothing to fix since nobody will use a 32 bit arch in 2038.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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