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.
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