Re: date overflow in year 2038

[Eric Blake]

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According to David M. Dowdle on 2/13/2009 8:45 PM:
> clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038" +%s
> date: invalid date `Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038'
> clouded:~>
> 
> 03:14:07 is apparently when 32bit time_t hits MAXINT

Yep, and that's why many newer systems are switching to 64-bit time_t.
But changing the size of size_t is an ABI difference, so not one that you
can easily port to older kernels.

> I'd rank this as low priority, but people doing things like 30 year
> mortages will be hitting this already.

Not a bug in coreutils, but an inherent limitation in your kernel.  Just
like the old limitation that you couldn't have a file larger than 2GB
until you upgraded to a kernel with 64-bit off_t support.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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