Excellent example Keith.
In order for PHP to gain acceptance in the commercial communities, a date
limitation will certainly prevent that.
Date limitation on "only" this or that operating system does not support any
argument.
Ideally it should not depend an operating system structure.
I propose #define PHP_DATE_SIZE _int64
"Keith Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > AG>> By the time we close in on 2038 and UNIX is still around
> > AG>> (*smile*) then most UNIX systems will most probably have moved
> > AG>> to 64bit timestamps, thus requiring in the best place just a
> > AG>> recompilation of your PHP binary and in the worse case if you
> > AG>> saved binary file stamps to a file, some kind of conversion
> > AG>> script. It's not as bad as the Y2K bug (which wasn't too bad:)
> >
> > Well, seeing that most Unix concepts are alive from 60-70th till today,
> > they'll probably be there in 2038. And I'm not sure all systems will be
> > upgraded by then. But I would probably be retired already by then, so
why
> > should I care? ;)
>
> What happens to, for example, somebody who takes out a policy that matures
> in 40 years and the maturation date is stored in an Oracle database using
> PHP? To start with, if the date (>2038) was stored with PHP (using
> mktime), it would come out as -1 If it was stored some other way and
then
> retrieved with PHP (using date), it would show the incorrect date (2038).
>
> I know the bug is not PHP's fault, but surely the code for the date
related
> functions could be rewritten so as NOT to use the OS's built-in functions
> (which I suppose is what is happening at the moment?)
>
> Regards,
> Keith
>
>
>
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