Since this digest only contains the one message hence the subject, I
thought I'd feature the entire digest so that those interested can join
and reap the benefits there of. It mostly deals with real html issues
and these messages have been somewhat of a departure from that.
I know that writing html is also not the topic of this list but in this
veign at least the two come together <grin>
Hence the sloagan:
"there is no top to the world wide web"
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Topics of the day:
1. SUMMARY: The end is nigh
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 05:31:06 -0500
From: Elliott Manley <Elliott@TessPub.com>
Subject: SUMMARY: The end is nigh
It turns out that everyone in the world apart from me knew about the
2038 Unix date problem. Dave Brooks replied thus:
>In response to your time-related query:
>
> In actuality, the issue is not at all related to PERL per se, it is
a
>UNIX issue. Actually it is one of a great many time-related issues...
>
>http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm
>
>check the above link for a large list of this and other issues.
>
>the problem is related to (POSIX) UNIX 32-bit signed time, where time
will
>crash at 2**31 seconds from 01/01/1970 (January 19, 2038). This really
>isn't a major issue for two basic reasons:
>
> a.) there are reports of a widespread fix in the works
> b.) by 2038, 32-bit systems will be obsolete, 64-bit is already
>coming on line.
That site is a treasure trove of useful and useless information. (e.g.
watch out for 1/1/2035, the day that MMDCCCLXXXVIII : the Roman a.u.c.
date field will be longer than ever before.) Thanks for a great link,
Dave.
My posts about dates earned me my first ever flame in eight years of
contributing to ADV-HTML. Apparently I was wasting the list's time by
spreading my paranoia. But I think we've kissed and made up now. With
delicious irony, a tree has fallen on my correspondent's power supply,
causing the dates in his email headers to be reset to 1969!
Elliott
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