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From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku <jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:27:43
Message-Id: 37071ea8-50de-f597-0aa4-33628bc51433@datsemultimedia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second! by Andrew Tselischev
1 On 2017-07-14 08:15, Andrew Tselischev wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:42:01PM +0700, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
3 > >> when time_t reaches 2 billion.
4 > >
5 > > He meant 2k38 problem, when time_t will overflow int32 :)
6 >
7 > I would bet that somewhere there is a quick-job shell script that parses
8 > unix timestamps with regular expressions and assumes they start with a 1. :D
9 >
10 Why do I feel that we've already gone through at least one upgrade of "Unix Time" already. I'm not sure if it was something like going from int16 to int32, or more that it went from signed int32 to unsigned int32.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second! Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>