Seriously.... If your apps are still being used in 2038 ... WOW!
This is an issue that will more then likely be well resolved LONG before
2038...
On 5/6/08 10:50 PM, "Nathan Nobbe" <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Paul Scott <pscott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:03 +0530, Chetan Rane wrote:
>>> Have guys heard of the the Y2K38 Bug more details are on this link
>>>
>>
>> Nope, but I can guess what its about.
>>
>>> Can there be a possible solution. As the system which I am developing
>>> for my client uses Unix timestamp.
>>>
>>
>> There are probably multiple solutions. AFAIK time is a 32 bit signed
>> int, making it unsigned would add like 100 years onto your app.
>>
>>> This might effect my application in the future
>>>
>>
>> If your app survives that long! Why not just maintain it and when times
>> change, your app changes? :)
>>
>> Seriously, this is really not a big deal!
>
>
> true-that ;)
> anyway, the DateTime class is implemented as a 64-bit unsigned (i think)
> value. so if you use it you should be good to go.
>
> php > echo date_create('2040-10-24')->format('M-d-Y');
> Oct-24-2040
>
> -nathan
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