HI,
I'm waiting to see how quickly someone starts the 1 Billion Bug
(1BB) Consultancy ... scary.
NIge
Nigel Hamilton
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:44:59AM -0500, Bill Desjardins wrote:
> >
> > Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year
> > on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and
> > gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but
> > me is using the timestamp in ways that were set to 9 digits, such as DB
> > column int length or in strings of fixed lengths, but these possibilities
> > should be looked at just in case they could fail when the time changes to
> > the longer int.
>
> Another common bug-waiting-to-happen is sorting the unix time stamp
> values as strings instead of numbers.
>
> Tim.
>
