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   Message 262,237 of 264,096   
   Johnny Billquist to Stephen Hoffman   
   Re: [OT] Time flies...   
   10 Jan 25 03:00:17   
   
   From: bqt@softjar.se   
      
   On 2025-01-09 20:35, Stephen Hoffman wrote:   
   > On 2025-01-08 16:21:20 +0000, Johnny Billquist said:   
   >   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   > I'm aware of 2038 bugs that were found and fixed within OpenVMS some   
   > years back, and there may well be others awaiting.   
   >   
   > The OpenVMS Y2K evalation expressly excluded testing of 2038 and later   
   > dates, as well.  Terra (or tempora) incognita.   
   >   
   > If you're running production on OpenVMS for the next decade or so, boot   
   > up a test guest, and test your code and test your environment past 2038.   
      
   I can definitely see that for C code using C functions. Also, wasn't   
   there some issue with C code in some runtime environment under VMS where   
   times were expressed as delta times which hit a problem at 10000 days?   
      
   But apart from things centered around C one way or another, I can't see   
   that VMS would care.   
      
      Johnny   
      
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