We've passed the billion-second mark in UNIX time. At least here in CDT we have :-) Hoping things keep getting better..... http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-07-024-20-PR ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:33:19PM -0500, JW wrote:
We've passed the billion-second mark in UNIX time. At least here in CDT we have :-)
It's been a while ago: pike@fizia:~ > date +%s 1000010841 pike@fizia:~ > date Sat Sep 8 21:47:25 PDT 2001 pike@fizia:~ >
Hoping things keep getting better.....
Veritas NetBackup discovered a bug displaying dates after this magic one in their Java GUI client. Ain't GUI nasty? ;-) Long live command line! -Kastus
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Happy new Billenium! <sound of noise makers> Now I just need to pick up my virtual confetti. ;-) -Tim On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:33 pm, JW wrote:
We've passed the billion-second mark in UNIX time. At least here in CDT we have :-)
Hoping things keep getting better.....
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-07-024-20-PR
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Since in many servers this is used with 32 bit arithmetic, 2e32-1 will
be reached in 2038, so problems.
The exact last second is 03:14:07 tuesday 19 january 2038 (GMT).
Arithmetic bits used then?
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:48:24AM +0200, Webillo Disperso wrote:
Since in many servers this is used with 32 bit arithmetic, 2e32-1 will be reached in 2038, so problems.
The exact last second is 03:14:07 tuesday 19 january 2038 (GMT).
Must make a note for my 85th birthday about this... -- Regards Cliff
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Must make a note for my 85th birthday about this...
-- Regards Cliff
I'm sure the programers back in the 1950-1960 felt the same way when they used 2 digits to represent the date. Regards, Terry
On 14 Sep 2001 20:13:18 -0400, Terrance Eck wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Must make a note for my 85th birthday about this...
-- Regards Cliff
I'm sure the programers back in the 1950-1960 felt the same way when they used 2 digits to represent the date.
Yes, but for modern machines, this problem can be fixed by using a 64-bit value to keep track of the seconds, which makes it a Y292,277,026,596 problem. That will be long after our sun burns out, so programmers won't have to worry. (It'll give their decendants a programming project to work on during the long trip to another solar system...) Unfortunately, this won't affect the CPUs in embedded circuits, some of which (so I've heard) use 32-bit time values starting from the Unix epoch. That could make it a much worse problem than the Y2k thing. Daniel
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