AIX and 2038?

From: Wesley Joyce (wjoyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 22:36:56 EST

I know this issue is real far off, but I ran across some info on this
during the holiday break. I probably won't be retired in 2038, so it will
directly affect me. :)

http://maul.deepsky.com/%7Emerovech/2038.html

Both my AIX 4.3.3 and 5.2 boxes stop incrementing time after "Tue Jan 19
03:14:07 2038" using the PERL script below.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# I've seen a few versions of this algorithm
# online, I don't know who to credit.
# Comments are by William Porquet
# http://www.2038.org/
# You may need to change the line above to
# reflect the location of your Perl binary
# (e.g. "#!/usr/local/bin/perl").
# Also change this file's name to '2038.pl'.
# Don't forget to make this file +x with "chmod".
# On Linux, you can run this from a command line like this:
# ./2038.pl
use POSIX;
# Use POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface),
# a set of standard operating system interfaces.
$ENV{'TZ'} = "GMT";
# Set the Time Zone to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for date calculations.
# Now count up in seconds of Epoch time just before and after the
# critical event. Print out the corresponding date in Gregrorian calendar
# for each result. Does the year jump backward to some other year
# than 2038?
for ($clock = 2147483641; $clock < 2147483651; $clock++)
         {
          print $clock; #I ADDED THIS MYSELF BEFORE RUNTIME. WESLEY JOYCE
          print ctime($clock);
         }

joycew@servera P650:/home/joycew[PROD]> ./2038.pl
2147483641Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
2147483642Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
2147483643Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
2147483644Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
2147483645Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
2147483646Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
2147483647Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
2147483648Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
2147483649Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
2147483650Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 


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