Re: what will happen on Jan1st 2038

["Saju.R.Pillai" <saju.pillai@xxxxxxxxxx>]

...and man asked GOD , " what will we do when the epoch time value increases

by one second on Jan 1 584942419355 AD . it  will
get overflow since the size cannot hold that value...
( 2 pow 64 ) - 1. " ?

What will happen to the Unix flavoured systems ?

and God thought ... then he frowned  ... and then he said..

Oh my Gosh... I better save all my data fast and reincarnate old chap Linus
again.


:-)

Saju

-- the unbeliever ( really ?? )

Narain CR wrote:

> Since a lot of time is still left for this to happen, the most likely
> event, friend is that we may have a 64bit counter by then (or who knows
> even a 128 or 256 bit one)... So we can start calculating (2 pow 64) - 1
> etc...
>
> Cheers,
> Narain.
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ramesh wrote:
>
> hi all...
>
> i have a doubt. what will happen on 2038 Jan first
> when the Epoch time value increases bya sec.. it will
> get overflow since the size cannot hold that value...
> (2 pow 32) -1.
>
> what will happen to the unix flavoured systems
>
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