On Sat, 07 May 2005 11:34:39 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote
> Frank Burton wrote:
> > I found this article surfing ...
> > <http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/may/06linux.htm>
>
> 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
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