Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date
Vick Khera
khera at juliet.cs.duke.edu
Mon May 1 09:55:30 AEST 1989
In article <1937 at csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge at csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes:
>While I like Unix as much as the NeXT guy (pun intended), does anyone in
>this group REALLY believe that it will still be around in the year 2100?
>Come on, guys, and get a clue!!!!!!!
>
>Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl
>UUCP: ...!sm.unisys.com!csun!csuna.csun.edu!abcscnge
I believe that you meant the year 2000, not 2100 as not being a leap year.
But, we know that Unix was designed to ``time-out'' at Jan 18, 2038 at
10:14:08PM. At least that is when the 32 bit time value runs out of room.
Vick.
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