From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: "Srinivas G." <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in>,
"linux-kernel-Mailing-list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:22:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505131522.32403.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348114BED13@mail.esn.co.in>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 11:43 Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Srinivas G.
2005-05-13 11:48 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-13 12:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 16:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 12:22 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2005-05-13 12:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 12:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 20:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 20:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 21:07 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-13 21:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 23:10 ` David Lang
2005-05-13 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-14 9:09 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 9:46 ` jnf
2005-05-14 10:37 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 10:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-15 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 14:37 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 15:19 ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-13 15:24 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 16:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-16 2:09 ` Paul Jakma
2005-05-14 12:46 Matthew Geier
2005-05-14 20:27 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 21:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-15 1:04 ` Gene Heskett
[not found] <43GQ7-5qy-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-14 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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