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date overflow in year 2038
From: |
David M. Dowdle |
Subject: |
date overflow in year 2038 |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:45:43 -0800 (PST) |
clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:06 UTC 2038" +%s
2147483646
clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038" +%s
2147483647
clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038" +%s
date: invalid date `Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038'
clouded:~>
clouded:~> date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 6.10
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
03:14:07 is apparently when 32bit time_t hits MAXINT
I'd rank this as low priority, but people doing things like 30 year
mortages will be hitting this already.
- date overflow in year 2038,
David M. Dowdle <=