> > What is first kernel and first libc that Y2K complaint?
> Neither the kernel nor the C runtime library cares anything about
> the year 2000. It is just a number presented for humans to read as
> the internal time is parsed into ss:mm:hh:mm:dd:yyyy, etc.
This is not true. The question is: since when is THIS code snippet
in the linux kernel?
linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c: get_cmos_time:
if ((year += 1900) < 1970)
year += 100;
>
> Problems will occur at (I think I remember) the year 2054 because
> the time_t integer is not large enough. By that time, we should all have
> 256-bit machines so the problem should go away.
The date is in 2038. That's when there have been 2^31 seconds since
1970. With some hacks, we will be able to buy ourselves another 68
years by using the 32nd bit too (loosing support for negative
times: 1902-1970).
Roger.
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