Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Tenser
From : AKAcastor
Date : Sun Apr 07 2024 20:02:50

 pF>  I thought the 2038 problem was a unix time_t issue?

 t> Depends on the Unix and the definition of `time_t`; on
 t> any reasonably modern system that's an `int64_t`.  It's
 t> really just old binaries or old versions of the OS.

DOS has its own date/time formats, but it is also common for software to convert between those and unix timestamps - so I think we will see many DOS programs directly affected by the year 2038 time_t overflow.


Chris/akacastor

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