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Re: 2038 bugby zenn (Sexton) |
on Apr 11, 2003 at 13:45 UTC ( [id://249883]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You can found in time.c in Linux kernel this comment:
This means that depending on your platform the bug can happen earlier enough to begin to think about it now. Nevertheless this depends on the size of your time_t type that is usually based in the long c type(in linux I mean). So since kernel 2.3 the developers are thinking about extending this to 64 bits to avoid this kind of problem. I don't know about other platforms, but I think it is easy enough to handle this problem, and this will be addressed soon. Zenn
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