Kind of puzzled about timestamps
Curt Howland
Howland at priss.com
Mon Mar 8 18:20:47 EST 2021
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On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> 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?
Hehehehe.
Tovalds was asked about the 2038 problem would be a problem. From
memory, he said, "It's nothing more difficult than changing the
counter from 32 bits to 64 bits, and a recompile. I hope people are
using something better than Linux by then."
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You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
--- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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