Re: Unix timestamp maximum
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:30:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unix timestamp maximum | ||
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AG>> By the time we close in on 2038 and UNIX is still around
AG>> (*smile*) then most UNIX systems will most probably have moved
AG>> to 64bit timestamps, thus requiring in the best place just a
AG>> recompilation of your PHP binary and in the worse case if you
AG>> saved binary file stamps to a file, some kind of conversion
AG>> script. It's not as bad as the Y2K bug (which wasn't too bad:)
Well, seeing that most Unix concepts are alive from 60-70th till today,
they'll probably be there in 2038. And I'm not sure all systems will be
upgraded by then. But I would probably be retired already by then, so why
should I care? ;)
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