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Year 2038 Problem
Name: Dr. Nick Date: September 14, 2003 at 23:58:42 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: P4 2.0Ghz & 1024MB pc133
Comment:
Hey, how many of you guys knew about this? Pretty interesting, especially if you understand the article (remember, there's only 10 kind of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.)
Name: Jake Date: September 15, 2003 at 09:17:33 Pacific
Reply:
I know because I recently wrote a PERL script for UNIX that uses a few time/date functions. For example, it compares date/times as seconds since the epoch, 1/1/1970. I'm sure my 500 line script will be obsolete by 2038, so I'm not worried.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dr. Nick Date: September 15, 2003 at 10:57:19 Pacific
Reply:
Very true, though the author does make some interesting points.
As a side note, I set my Windows clock to the year 2050 and two applications that were running in the background crashed within about 20 seconds.
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