Re: AIX and 2038?

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 05:50:30 EST


Not something I'm going to worry about a lot - I'm getting to be an old
fart, so I'm not sure I'll even be _alive_ in '38 - but just out of
interest, what sort of box did you run it on? Was it a truly 64-bit
machine?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wesley Joyce [mailto:wjoyce@UVI.EDU]
> Sent: 04 January 2004 03:37
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: AIX and 2038?
>
>
> 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.
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