Re: [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000 this year!

[Robin Berjon]

At 00:44 09/03/2001 -0500, Bill Desjardins wrote:
>Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year
>on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and
>gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but
>me is using the timestamp in ways that were set to 9 digits, such as DB
>column int length or in strings of fixed lengths, but these possibilities
>should be looked at just in case they could fail when the time changes to
>the longer int.

Has anyone tried to get there artificially and see what breaks ?

-- robin b.
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