On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, David Poehlman wrote: > 1:46:40am (GMT) on the 9th September is Unix's billionth birthday. > > According to the Unix clock, time started at midnight on the 1st Jan, > 1970 and has been counted in seconds ever since. At the above instant > next month, > the time will click over from 999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000. nice lol. > Seriously though, at the risk of sounding like a Y2K doom-merchant > (which I was!) it's worth checking that you will not have any > clock-related problems > next month. hmm. Seriously, in the remainder of this message the writer talked about 12 and 13 digets. The observent reader will notice that it's about 9 or 10 digits (apart from ocourse Microsj%ft who will have 12 and 13 digets cause of there milisecond counter). Next 2 inporant dates are: 2,000,000,000 on Wed May 18 04:33:20 2033 2,147,483,648 on Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 2038 This last one as specially is inportant cause 1 second later the 2^31 digtes unix-time uses (a standart 32-bit integer) will be full. On that time/date we need to store time on a 64-bit integer to tacle this problem, but somehow I expect that will be done well ahead of time. slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!