Re: The Year 2038 Problem
From: Dario (drinking coffee in the office…) (dario_at_despammed.com)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:51:06 +0200
Generic Usenet Account wrote:
> As per Google's Usenet archives
> [http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html], the
> first discussion of the Y2K problem on the Usenet was on January 18
> 1985 [http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=820%40reed.UUCP]. That
> is a good 15 years before the problem manifested. Even then, it
> turned out, we were scrambling for cover when the D-day was
> approaching.
>
> Although the Y2K scare turned out to be vastly overblown, we do have a
> massive problem ahead of us ------ the Year 2038 problem. On Mon Jan
> 18 21:14:07 2038, the Unix seconds-since-epoch count will "roll-over".
> After that, the time on the Unix systems will read as Fri Dec 13
> 14:45:52 1901.
>
> IMHO, if we want to avoid the last minute panic that we witnessed
> towards the end of the last millennium (while pursuing the Y2K
> problem), we should begin the process of debating the viable solutions
> to this problem NOW. It will take a long time for the consensus to be
> built, and to come up with a solution that most (if not all) people
> find acceptable. We also need considerable time to test out all
> possible solutions in the real world, to decide if the solutions
> really work as expected. We may also need to develop a suite of
> recovery strategies should the problem manifest in some system on that
> fateful Monday morning. All this takes time. So, as the late Todd
> Beamer would have said: Let's roll.
>
> Bhat
In 2038 all OS (Unix included) will have 64 bits
to hold a Date value and with 64 bits the rollover
will happen 292 billion years after 1/1/1970.
- Dario
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