Bill Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Code which assumes that timestamps can be sorted alphanumerically
rather then purely numerically will break too.
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Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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