Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day

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On Fri, 13 May 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

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

Yes. It's more FUD. The __real__ problem, ther everybody should
be concerned about is that today is Friday the 13th. My black cat
already walked under a ladder and broke my mirror.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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