In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.10001101401050.734-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>,
Mike A. Harris <mharris@meteng.on.ca> wrote:
>One problem I forsee with the "2k38 bug"(TM) is that people
>assume that we will have to wait 38 years to see it. Any data at
>all that uses time_t type will be limited to 2038 correct?
>People always assume that the data stored in variables of type
>time_t are todays date. Why is this the case? What if I write a
>program that makes future predictions of something, or includes
>data for future events?
Like, say, 30-year mortgages.
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david parsons \bi/ I suspect that there will be 32-bit processors in
\/ operation in 2008.
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