Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262345AbVEMMXX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 08:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262348AbVEMMXX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 08:23:23 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:54683 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262345AbVEMMXV (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 08:23:21 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: "Srinivas G." , "linux-kernel-Mailing-list" Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:22:32 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348114BED13@mail.esn.co.in> In-Reply-To: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348114BED13@mail.esn.co.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505131522.32403.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 21 On Friday 13 May 2005 14:43, Srinivas G. wrote: > But what about the present? Many applications running on Linux could > soon be making calculations for dates 30 years away -- say, for mortgage > and insurance calculations -- and could start giving out error messages > well before D-day. The problem could be widespread because more and more > corporates today are migrating to Linux because of the better security > it offers. ... > How can the problem be sorted? Modern Linux programs could use 64-bit or > longer time_t data storage to overcome the problem. As for the existing ^^^^^^ Looks like someone is contemplating a mortgage which expire well beyond Solar system lifetime. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/