Oh No! That is the first I heard of the Y2.038K bug! We best all prepare for the end!
Andy On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:02:34 -0500, John Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin K wrote: > > That is the Unix date of 'epoch' > > When life began. > > No, really there is a variable in all machines that has the number of > > seconds since Jan 1, 1970. So if the data is '1969-12-31', your clock is > > set to zero. It usually gets set to zero in an email address if the > > person sending the message has an outdated email client, or an > > intermediary mail server has problems. > > Yup. And that brings us to the 2038 bug. On January 19, 2038 the 32-bit > integer that stores the number of seconds* since the Unix epoch began > rolls over. Then bad things happen... > > ...unless we move everything to 64-bit unix time. The 64-bit time > rollover is presumed not to be a problem because the sun will run out of > hydrogen and turn into a white dwarf star first. > > jh > > *(2,147,483,647 in case you were wondering) > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
