I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038. - Gerd. Nigel Hamilton wrote: > > HI, > I'm waiting to see how quickly someone starts the 1 Billion Bug > (1BB) Consultancy ... scary. > > NIge > > Nigel Hamilton > ______________________________________________________________________________ > http://turbo10.com Turbo10 Search Engine Search Fast. Browse Faster. > > 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. > >
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