UNIX stores time as amount of seconds passed since
the 1st of January 1970.
Since it is 32-bit value in modern Unices, it can
hold up to 2,147,483,648 or
approximatively 68 years. The
counter overflows on 19th of January 2038 at
3:14:07 AM. People believe that all the hardware
will be 64-bit by that time.
But apparently it is not the case in
Nepal.
Oracle, internally can
handle dates well beyond that.
It is definitely W2K's deficiency. Any other 32-bit
platform will have it too.
Looks like the only solution is to move to a 64-bit
platform/OS.
For more information see: http://www.gsp.com/2038/
Hope it helps.
Nic.
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