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From: ed@sfucmpt (Ed Bryant)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Unix time will screw up!
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 13:21:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 13:21:20 1983
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Did you realize that since the time(1,2,3) is stored in a long word,
and records seconds since the `epoch', 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970,
there will be catastrophic problems with unix when the clock rolls over,
in about 125 years, or 2108. And, if they're not careful about the sign
bit, in 2039!

ed.

PS. And, we \still/ won't have 4.2 by then either.