February 30th, 1712 and databases...

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 03:15:46PM -0500, William Porquet wrote
> Just a bit more details on the potential 2038 Unix time issues...
> 
> http://maul.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html
> 
> Written by Yours Truly.
> 
> Cheers,
> William

  I tried 2038.pl on a couple of my machines.  "d531" runs 32-bit Gentoo
and "i3" runs 64-bit Gentoo.  The 64-bit machine works, the 32-bit
machine rolls over.   IANACP (I Am Not A C Programmer).  How difficult
is it to implement 64-bit time in a 32-bit architecture?  Also, given
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1414238/linux-nukes-386-support
that linux has recently dropped support for i386, how long before it
drops support for 32-bit mode entirely?  We've got approximately 25 years
and 1 month to go.

[d531][waltdnes][~] ./2038.pl
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901

[i3][waltdnes][~] ./2038.pl
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:09 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:10 2038

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