Quoth Brooke Clarke at 2008-04-21 04:59... > This is the rollover date for "C" language date functions that count the > seconds since 00:00:00 1 Jan 1970 with a signed 32 bit integer. > > One second after after 03:14:07 GMT, January 19, 2038 is in 1901.
This has been known about for some time - there is even a reference to it in the book 'Standard C Date/Time Library' by Lance Latham, published some 10 years ago (preparing for Y2K). See section 1.8.5, 'Other Flavors of Doomsday'. I would add that this is actually quite an interesting book in some of the background that it gives on various temporal orders. For most of us, the Unix date problem will be a non-issue as we will either a) be retired or b) have passed away by then, making it an SEP (Someone Else's Problem) ;-) On the subject of books (not meaning to hijack your thread, Brooke,) I'm about two-thirds of the way through 'History of the Hour - Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders' by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum. Despite the rather dry-sounding title, I am finding this very engaging reading and would recommend it most wholeheartedly to my fellow temporophiles. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.