On Sat, 07 May 2005 11:34:39 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote > Frank Burton wrote: > > I found this article surfing ... > > > > This is ancient news, and you should not lose any sleep over it. > > All unix-like systems keep track of time and date in a variable type > called time_t, which at the moment happens to be 32 bits wide. The > value is in seconds since 12/31/1970, and it will overflow the 32 > bit limit in 2038. Well if you're programming in C++, all I can say is stop dealing with these low level types and give yourself some breathing room. See Boost.date-time written by me with a helping had from another plug member Bart G :-( http://www.boost.org/doc/html/date_time.html Boost has found its way into at least a couple linux distros.... Jeff --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss