In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, on 02/09/2010 at 10:48 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>They've also fixed the UNIX 2038 time bug What time bug? There's nothing[1] in the Unix specifications that requires a 32-bit clock. AFAIK the support for a 64-bit clock should be transparent. [1] Take a close look at the specification of time_t, rather than its implementation on a specific platform. The introduction of time64_t is a hack intended to preserve compatability with existing z/OS Unix code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html