[LBo] Y238K bug

[Stefan Waidele]

Andrew Henry schrieb:
> I read this on slashdot
> 
> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/15/1928213
> 
> and wondered if the current crop of 64-bit versions of
> Ubuntu/Fedora/SUSE use a 64-bit time_t data type?

That is a good question. And a fine example of the virtues of open
source: We can all check, and even fix the malfunction.

I do not consider this a bug, BTW. It is an overflow. While the
data-type is fully functional (representing the data correctly), it is
simply getting too small. The Y2K-bug was due to a faulty representation
of the data-type.

My 0.02€

Stefan

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