Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:01:52 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD prepared for the future? Message-ID: <199605210131.LAA23659@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9604208326.AA832626871@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at May 20, 96 02:54:36 pm
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Brett Glass stands accused of saying: > > Just read yet another doomsaying article about the Millenium and the havoc > it will wreak with much computer software. As I recall, D-day for UNIX > is different -- the crisis comes a little bit into the next century. > > Has FreeBSD been updated so that its "seconds since the start of time" > clock will not overflow? If we're still using FreeBSD in 2038, then we can worry about fixing programs that assume that time_t is signed. Once we do that, we buy another 68 years, and I expect to be _dead_ before that runs out. > --Brett -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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