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From: cabo@tub.UUCP (Carsten Bormann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Timekeeping in ANSI C
Summary: Where's the problem?
Message-ID: <350@tub.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 17:38:48 GMT
References: <461@auvax.UUCP> <28700025@ccvaxa> <7159@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2527@haddock.ISC.COM> <594@acornrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: cabo@tub.UUCP (Carsten Bormann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Sun Feb 14 18:38:48 1988

In article <594@acornrc.UUCP> rbbb@acornrc.UUCP (David Chase) writes:
() 
() But don't listen to me.  Go ahead, use the Unix format.  I should still be
() alive on 'Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038 (GMT)' when all you [sic] code dies.

If I'm alive on January 18th, 2038, I will very likely, just as
everybody else, run my UNIX code on a 64 bit machine, and my code will
happily live on until the sun turns into a supernova.
-- 
Carsten Bormann, <cabo@tub.UUCP> <cabo@db0tui6.BITNET> <cabo@tub.BITNET>
Communications and Operating Systems Research Group
Technical University of Berlin (West, of course...)
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