Re: [SuSE Linux] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?

[Michael Salmon]

+----- On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:10:34 PST, Ec|ipse writes:
| 
| Scott Watson wrote:
| > 
| > From: Harald Sundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > >How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?
| > 
| > I understand that, while Linux is 2000 OK, it may have problems in 2038.
| > Can anyone expand on this?
| > 
| 
| In a nut shell, thats when the internal clock on the system will have
| reached its 32bit (was it 32?) limit. Theres already talk about changing
| it to a 64 bit number, but I'm not sure when that would be implemented.

Most systems use a signed long for time_t and hence the clock 
overflows after 2^31 seconds.

/Michael

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