2038, and it's more a Unix problem than a C problem.
Unix states the date as the number of seconds since the beginning of 1970.
Simply, after some time in 2038, a 32 bit variable can not hold that
many seconds. 64 bit machines will have the year 20 quadrillion problem
or something. :-)
TomG
>The next date-related problem, IIRC, is in 2034 - something to do with
>C/C++'s common date function overflowing. And following that, maybe some
>software peeps will make the same mistake of presuming "20", and 2100
>will be a problem.
>
>McMac
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