On Thu Aug 07 14:20:11 2008, coke wrote:
> Open a ticket for TODO item.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: time op inconsistent on Win32
> To: Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, p2
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> we definitely need date/time pmc(s?) not only to have a common epoch
> across platforms, but to deal with 2038. in particular, we should
> leverage schwern's work on perl to address the 2038 bug.
> ~jerry
We definitely haven't already fixed this. Here's an easy test using
libfaketime:
$ cat time.pir
.sub main :main
.local int time_int
time time_int
say time_int
.end
$ ./parrot time.pir
1222213121
$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/src/libfaketime-0.8/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME="+40y"
./parrot time.pir
-1811314167
