I saw a post recently (possibly elsewhere, if so I'm sorry for the
spam) stating that on Sep 8 next year timestamps (the number of seconds
since 00:00:01 1/1/70, the UNIX epoch) will hit 10 digits for the first
time. The comment was that it might be something like the Y2K problem.
I tried a few quick tests, and got this:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(2147483647),"\n",
scalar localtime(2147483648),"\n";'
Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 14:45:52 1901
It's a signed 4-byte integer.
Not an issue of horrendous urgency yet,
but maybe we should think about it before 2037? =o)
Paul
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