Kind of puzzled about timestamps

[Jerry Feldman]

 Banks and other financial institutions have long used math packages that
made 2035 moot. Loans and risk computations frequently go 50 years or
longer. I worked for algorithmics for 10 years. We had a C++ customized
package.

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 4:09 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com>
wrote:

> On 3/8/21 2:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I love this discussion. I've been involved with computer time since the
> early 1970s. While at burger King I wrote a standardized set of time
> utilities in cobol. Later at Digital I was responsible for the utmp
> libraries, and the standard test failed. The issue was that the
> > standard test used a future time beyond 2035. Back then tine_t was a
> signed 32 bit integer
>
> I bought a house with a 30-year mortgage in late 2008. My first house,
> actually.
>
> All of the things that people talk about being afraid of with being a new
> home-buyer...,
> well..., none of them compared to the sense of dread that I felt when I
> looked at
> the end-date on the mortgage and asked myself:
>
>         What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a
> computer
>         where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then?
>
> So I pay a little extra each month.
> Hopefully I can have the account closed and expunged before that point ;p
>
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