In message <ef3daad70902131706x2277ac5fp5cc243ffff354998@mail.gmail.com>, Nathan Malynn writes:
Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now?
No. Even if they were you have 32 bit timestamps in lots of things that have to be handled even if time/time64 returns a 64 bit timestamp.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Ravi Pina <ravi@cow.org> said:
Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC 2038-01-19...
Oddly enough, the end of the current Unix epoch is a prime. Not only that, it is a Mersenne prime, 2^31 - 1. Even more, it is the largest known Mersenne prime where its Mersenne number (31) is also a Mersenne prime (2^5 - 1).
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