On 16 Apr 2001, at 15:20, Peter Samuel wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Samuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:49 PM
> > > To: Dean Staff
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] qmail logs - wishlist
> > > 
> > > the time structure contains the stime value in a 32 bit 
> > > signed integer.
> > > 
> > > It will rollover on
> > > 
> > >     Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038 GMT
> > 
> > That leaves us with less than 37 years to fix the problem.
> > 
> > I dunno, that may be setting the bar a little too high!
> 
> We had more than 30 years to get the Y2K problem under control (and we
> did nothing until the last couple of years).
> 
> Then there's the Y10K problem :)
> 

Yeah, but we have to leave something for all these, now out of work, 
cobol programmers to look forward to.

Dean

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