Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Day of week routine
Message-ID: <1989Jun1.160913.8849@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <FLEE.89May22191959@shire.cs.psu.edu> <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp> <107107@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1989May30.155016.11099@utzoo.uucp> <534@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 16:09:13 GMT

In article <534@bnr-fos.UUCP> dgibbs@bcars115.UUCP (David Gibbs) writes:
>>What will happen when the 32-bit Unix date goes negative in mid-January
>>2038 does not bear thinking about... :-)
>  Nothing of course, because nobody (but nobody) will be using piddly little
>32-bit machines in 2038.

Dream on... :-)  Have you looked at how many PDP-8s are still in service?
I won't even mention the staggering production runs of PDP-11s, which are
still in production in fact.  (I *think* the 8 is finally out of production,
but I could well be wrong.)  Nobody uses them in leading-edge applications
any more, but there are still lots of them around.  The transition from 32
to 64 is going to be long and painful; I predict that there will still be
plenty of 32-bit machines serving in secondary roles in 2038.
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