Re: Y2K style bug for Linux

Jason <jason@spatafore.net> wrote:
> The article did touch on a serious issue: What
> about mortgage calculations past 35 years from
> today? The point is: What about prediction today
> for the limitations of tomorrow?

I agree that anyone using an application that has
to look past 2038 would do well to use appropriate
test cases today, both to smoke-test the program and
to sanity-check the results.

This type of computation should not rely on system
utilities that deal with the current date and time
in terms of seconds. That is not a "bug for Linux",
it's just lazy programming. But I'm sure a lot of
these programs were written in COBOL and have
survived Y2K; and I bet most of them do their own
OS-independent decimal arithmetic in terms of
days, not seconds.

Our mortgage will be over in three years! ;-)

Vic
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