Re: Y10k [was Re: format of elfcap header [was Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]]]

Thomas Wouters (thomas@xs4all.nl)
Thu, 20 May 1999 17:09:48 +0200


On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 04:08:52PM -0700, Y2K wrote:

> > You are having year-429496 problem with your date encoding, through
> > ;-))))). (I do not much care what encoding of version you use. It has
> Actually it should be looked into before the year 9999 AD
> I'll make the date the minor version, then sometime before 9999 they can
> raise the major number and expand that one field. I hope that 32bit
> computers are really considered obsolete way before 9999;->

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2550.txt

Excellent preparation, that RFC.

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