At 07:14 PM 9/7/98 +0200, you wrote: >On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, James wrote: >>On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, dreamwvr wrote: >> >>-Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: >>-Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the >>-earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being >>-spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. > >>at least when that event does happen (the number of seconds >>since some time in the 70's >> > long int - that's right isn't it?) we'll have the >> >source to fix it. Somehow a 2038 bug doesn't seem >> >as catchy :) > >There' s nothing to fix since nobody will use a 32 bit arch in 2038. Except maybe the United States government, who still uses vacuum tubes and discrete transistors to run its air traffic control system....
