Yawn Y2K

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I don't know whether fax will be dead, or whether we will still be using 32 bit
time_t,
but i am sure i'll be dead (or at least retired), and possibly so will most of
the folks on this
list.. ha ha.. (just kidding, no offence intended).

I am sure a lot of those guys who wrote code in the 1960s had similar thought
processes ... and look what an business opportunity they handed to all
the y2k fixers in the 1990s ...

Prasad Khandkar

l41484@alfa.ist.utl.pt wrote:

> 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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> Tiago Pascoal  (l41484@alfa.ist.utl.pt)               FAX : +351-1-7273394
> Politicamente incorrecto, e membro (nao muito) proeminente da geracao rasca.