Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug Summary:

From: david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 17:40:41 EST


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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