[Ilugc] Year 2038..Again the replica of Y2K ??
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Wed Nov 30 19:41:01 2005
On 30/11/05, Karthik <karthik_cec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In unix, is time_t, type defined from an int data type ?? Will unix based
n/w applications crash during 2038? any suggestions??
Upgrade to a 64-bit platform/OS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Another interesting link is:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/msg/f8f28e0e65f633ce
where the author hypothesizes that OSS will be the only software that
would have addressed the 2038 problem in a timely manner and that
people (especially bankers etc. who at times need to look many decades
into the future) would be pissed with proprietary vendors who wouldn't
have bothered with the problem.
Another article on the subject is at
http://www.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html
Binand
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