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Re: Silly season

  • From: Richard Steenbergen
  • Date: Wed Dec 22 17:14:34 1999 
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 09:58:15PM +0300, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
> PS. Btw, do you remember the date of 2035 year when UNIX systems can face the
> REAL time problem? -:)

Actually thats Tuesday January 19th at 3:14.07 2038 GMT (2147483647
seconds past epoch, the limit of a signed 32 bit time_t).

Or just y2.038k. :P 

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