| From: | "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: Real-Life Computing ... |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 10:23:59 -0400 |
># That's if and a big IF they get the 2k bug squashed. Hell wont that be
># funny. "we'll sell ya a chip that might work in the year 2000." But i
># wonder what happened in SR to cope with the year 2k bug? any ideas?
>
>you realise the 2029 bug was when the 32 bit time bug in UNIX hit
You mean 2038. By which time all *nix vendors will have switched to
64 bit times (yes, they're starting now). And it's not a 32 bit time
"bug", it's a 31 bit time limitation (they defined a time data structure
as a signed integer, instead of an unsigned long or something similar).
James Ojaste
