date overflow in year 2038

[David M. Dowdle]

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.