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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Gert Doering wrote:

> Mgetty has no idea what a "date" might be.  All programs use date only for
> logging, and even then, only mm/dd is used, no year in any form.  Time
> stamps / time differences are done based on time() values, that is, seconds
> since the epoch, so there is no calculation based on dates that could go
> wrong.
> 
> Weird things might happen in 2038.
> 
> 
> Klaus, could you please add this to the FAQ?

By that time, we already stop using a 32 bits time_t. :-) Not to mention
that in 2038 FAX is already dead. <G>

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