Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

From: Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 16:08:17 EST


On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 03:32:53PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
...
> I think that before 38 years is up, none of us will be using 32-bit
> machines so, even if I was 10 years old, I wouldn't bother 'fixing'
> 32-bit machines. Even Intel's new stuff is 64 bits.

Incidentally this is the exact argument that reportedly was used against
those who warned about the Y2K problen in late seventies/early eighties!

Yours,
  Dominik Kubla

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