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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bug In Microsoft C 5.1 asctime function?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 07:01:46 GMT
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In article <3156@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>The asctime function for converting date and time to the ASCII string
>equivalent seems to fail for years after 2038.  (This should tell

#include <limits.h>
ttime = LONG_MAX;

The current time in Milliseconds: 2147483647
Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038
ttime++;
Invalid number of milliseconds: -2147483648
Mon Jan 18 19:14:08 2038

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