>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year
Bill> on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and
Bill> gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but
Bill> me is using the timestamp in ways that were set to 9 digits, such as DB
Bill> column int length or in strings of fixed lengths, but these possibilities
Bill> should be looked at just in case they could fail when the time changes to
Bill> the longer int.
Bill> Just a heads up, hope it helps someone.
I've been showing it on my homepage for the past 6 months.
For an RSS file with the timestamp, invoke
http://www.stonehenge.com/u1e9.html
And yes, I've written programs that will definitely break on that
time. So if I've done it, I bet others have done it as well.
The sad thing is that unlike Y2K, this thing cuts in all at the same
time all over the world. Fun fun fun.
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