Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug Summary:

From: Scott Henry (scotth@sgi.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 21:20:02 EST

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>>>>> "L" == Lauri Tischler <lauri.tischler@efore.fi> writes:

L> BTW. What is the _exact_ datetime when Unix's freak ?

The last valid time is:

% TZ=GMT perl -MTime::localtime -le '$t=(2**31)-1;print $t;print ctime($t);'
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
%

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