10 digit timestamp

[Paul <yd...@yahoo.com>]

I saw a post recently (possibly elsewhere, if so I'm sorry for the
spam) stating that on Sep 8 next year timestamps (the number of seconds
since 00:00:01 1/1/70, the UNIX epoch) will hit 10 digits for the first
time.  The comment was that it might be something like the Y2K problem.

I tried a few quick tests, and got this:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(2147483647),"\n",
               scalar localtime(2147483648),"\n";'
Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 14:45:52 1901

It's a signed 4-byte integer.
Not an issue of horrendous urgency yet, 
but maybe we should think about it before 2037? =o)

Paul
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Re: 10 digit timestamp

[Vivek Khera <kh...@kciLink.com>]

>>>>> "P" == Paul  <yd...@yahoo.com> writes:

P> It's a signed 4-byte integer.
P> Not an issue of horrendous urgency yet, 
P> but maybe we should think about it before 2037? =o)


Errr...  Are you new to Unix?  This is a very well known issue... and
really has nothing to do with mod_perl.

The only thing this will really affect is people who are silly enough
to write dates to persistent storage using time_t values.