> The time is the number of seconds since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900
GMT,
> such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1 January 1900 GMT; this base will
> serve until the year 2036.
I think this time we can afford to disregard such limits without fear of
another Y2K-style drama; heard of Moore's Law? ;)
Interestingly, UNIX systems have a similar problem. They store time as the
number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. They apparently use a
signed 32-bit integer (so negative times work too), giving a D-Day of
3:14:07am, January 20, 2038. This may be a little more of a problem.
Up in the staff cafeteria in the computer science department at Auckland
University, they have (or had when I was last there) a calendar from Sun
Microsystems. The date on the calendar? 2038 :)
- Matt
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