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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: 64 bits
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Date: 10 Aug 90 14:51:47 GMT
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! In-reply-to: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 10 Aug 90 13:03:28 GMT

In article <MEISSNER.90Aug10101645@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
| Regarding 64 bit ints, and such -- another thing that will soon need
| to be 64 bits on UNIX systems, is the value time_t returns.  This is
| the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch (Jan 1, 1970), and with 32
| bit signed ints, it runs out on Monday January 18 at 22:14:07 in the
| year 2038.

  Soon? I'm not too worried about this, a change to unsigned will give
us to the end of the century, and frankly I doubt that UNIX will be
around that long, and I know I sure as hell won't be!

  If UNIX is around in fifty years, we'll all be running SysV.30 on
embedded nanotech in our brains, connected with TFS, the Telepathic File
System. The techies will run BSD 4.16, and FSF and OSF will be almost
ready to ship a production release.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
 "This is your computer. This is your computer on OS/2. Any questions?"