On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:51:07 +1000 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: >> I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not >> find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two >> digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too. >> >> The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS >> and the PC clock chip on some systems storing the century as two >> digits. The Linux program that reads the hardware clock into the >> software clock can make up for that. An update of this program was >> just released and will be well-deployed before it is needed. > >One local trade newspaper or magazine recently ran a story on >the Unix 2038 problem. Really getting in early here folks ...
By that time everything will be 64-bit and the problem will disappear. We won't have to worry about it again until ("bc" calculation pending...) the year 292,271,023,045. I don't think I'll worry too much about that! Gary Hennigan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .