Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond!diamond From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <10322@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Date: 2 Jun 89 03:07:02 GMT References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp> <107107@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1989May30.155016.11099@utzoo.uucp> <534@bnr-fos.UUCP> Sender: news@csl.sony.JUNET Reply-To: diamond@csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan Lines: 26 In article <1989May30.155016.11099@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >>What will happen when the 32-bit Unix date goes negative in mid-January >>2038 does not bear thinking about... :-) In article <534@bnr-fos.UUCP> dgibbs@bcars115.UUCP (David Gibbs) writes: > Nothing of course, because nobody (but nobody) will be using piddly little >32-bit machines in 2038. When I was introduced to a 5-year-old mainframe in 1970, I thought "32 bits isn't enough. Why is this thing less powerful than that slow old little machine that uses BCD, Can't Add and Doesn't Even Try?" Surely no one would have predicted that piddly little 32-bit machines and piddlier littler 16-bit machines would still be used 19 years later. Well, in those 19 years, I adapted not only to 32-bit limitations but also to 16-bit limitations. (Somehow the 8-bit machines had 16-bit library routines supplied by their vendors. Never saw the famous 4-bit machines, except maybe the one that Couldn't Add and Didn't Even Try.) Why can't all these eunuchs do it.... -- Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net) The above opinions are my own. | Why are programmers criticized for If they're also your opinions, | re-implementing the wheel, when car you're infringing my copyright. | manufacturers are praised for it?