In <1265899827.22396.879.ca...@chuck.duda.com>, on 02/11/2010 at 09:50 AM, David Andrews <d...@lists.duda.com> said:
>There is a lucid discussion of the issue on Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem You mean where it says "The ISO C standard states that time_t must be an arithmetic type, but does not mandate any specific type or encoding for it."? >Whether a "Unix issue" or not, expanding time_t beyond the commonly >implemented (and signed!) 32 bits breaks binary compatibility and file >format. Lots of things break binary compatibility without proving the existence of a bug in the old code. As for breaking file formats, is a new file system any worse than dropping IMBED and REPLICATE in VSAM? -- 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
