<div dir="auto"> 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. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a><br>PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7<br>PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6<br>B B6E7</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 4:09 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 3/8/21 2:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:<br>
> 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 <br>
> standard test used a future time beyond 2035. Back then tine_t was a signed 32 bit integer<br>
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I bought a house with a 30-year mortgage in late 2008. My first house, actually.<br>
<br>
All of the things that people talk about being afraid of with being a new home-buyer...,<br>
well..., none of them compared to the sense of dread that I felt when I looked at<br>
the end-date on the mortgage and asked myself:<br>
<br>
What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a computer<br>
where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then?<br>
<br>
So I pay a little extra each month.<br>
Hopefully I can have the account closed and expunged before that point ;p<br>
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