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| =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= to Johnny Billquist |
| Re: [OT] Time flies... |
| 08 Jan 25 11:38:29 |
From: arne@vajhoej.dk On 1/8/2025 11:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2025-01-02 14:44, Simon Clubley wrote: >> BTW, it's now a little over 13 years to the end of the world... > > For some Unix systems, yes. Not sure if that is relevant in a newsgroup > for VMS... Old *nix using signed 32 bit seconds since 1970 will have a problem. The seconds since 1970 concept has also sneaked into many VMS applications via C, but time_t in VMS C is unsigned 32 bit, so we will first have the problem in 2106! Arne --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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