9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
14:18
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 07 December 2007 22:03:40 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
32-bit time will run out sometime in 2038. This gives us 31 years to convert to 64-bit time.
Actually it's a signed long, which means 2147483647 seconds, or just over 68 years. An unsigned value would be about twice that
But since it's typedef:ed to "long", all we have to do is stop buying 32 bit machines, the modern 64 bit systems are already safe until well after the sun explodes in a few billion years' time :)
Hopefully, I'll have a 128 bit system by then. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org