Re: Y2k - Is Linux Ready for the year 2000?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Jan 1998 00:44:49 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980105181859.194A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Birthday = Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
> Funeral = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
>
[UTC]

>
> Before the year 2038, somebody has got to either change the size of
> "time_t" or make it unsigned.
>

NO UNSIGNED -- please!

It would be a Bad Thing[TM] to have time_t unsigned, since we'd lose
the capability to represent dates before 1970. 32-bitness should be
nonexistent long before 2038, so the right thing to do is to go
64 bit.

-hpa

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