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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!jochen From: jochen@netcom.com (Jochen Roth) Subject: Re: Year 2000 problem? Message-ID: <jochenE9HICD.4o0@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3365F634.794BDF32@jnet.vi> <01bc54d3$9d98ca00$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> <5k66ro$r9l@lace.colorado.edu> <E9GGp7.1w3@midway.uchicago.edu> <5k8qbq$j2u@lace.colorado.edu> Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 04:12:13 GMT Lines: 13 Sender: jochen@netcom18.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40068 Frank Crary (fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote: : Fair enough. But I think my basic point is correct: UNIX is fairly : flexible about how the system time is stored. If you can use two : 16 bit integers instead of one 32 bit integer, I really doubt that : you'd have trouble using a 64 bit integer. So there won't be a problem : in 2032, since people will, almost certainly, be using 64 bit registers : by then. Problem is: will you find those tapes with the source in 2032 to recompile with that new time_t? And will your Terabyte optical streamer understand QIC-02? Sounds like never ending job opportunities to me...