On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:10:16AM -0600, TIm Schneider wrote:
> Hi Bruce, Just got this message - hoidays and all. Could you clarify the year 2036 problem please. Was that a typo for the year 2000 problem??
On UNIX systems, time is represented as the number of seconds from 12:00
midnight January 1st 1970 (referred to as the "UNIX epoch"). Using a
32-bit signed integer, this value will wrap around some time in the year
2036 IIRC. Using 64-bit signed integer (which is how it's done on any
64-bit platform: Alpha, UltraSparc, MIPS R4000 or later), it will not
wrap around until after our sun has burned out.
-- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/ E-Mail: bruce.guenter@qcc.sk.ca - Saskatoon Linux Group Mailing List. - To unsubscribe, send mail to 'linux-request@slg.ml.org' with 'unsubscribe' in the body.Received on Tue Aug 18 09:11:34 1998
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