18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
8:03 p.m.
Time comes at you fast :-) The POSIX committee has officially adopted 64-bit time_t as a requirement in the working draft of IEEE Std. 1003.1-202x and ISO/IEC 9945. One thing to cross off my list. And I was looking forward to all the time machines crashing into the University of California Berkeley quad on 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
Other problems which will occur sooner:
1. Unix 32-bit time_t overflow. 2. North American Numbering Plan runs out of +1 zone phone numbers 3. IPv6 deployed and working everywhere/everything on the Internet 4. Analog AM and FM radio broadcasting deprecated (see digital DAB/DRM/HD) 5. Heat death of the universe