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."


- -- 
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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