unix epoch rollover
- Posted by useless Apr 17, 2010
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If i start the hype over the 2038 rollover on 32bit systems now, will it get us 64bit Euphoria integers any faster? In 2028, we won't be able to schedule anything 10 yrs in advance. Since i'll be in my 70's (and Jiri will be even older!), i might like to document my appointments.
It's like, even if win7 etc are now 2038-safe, Eu can't report the date with it's 32bit integers, rather like seek()ing into a file over 4294967296 bytes long. The mandated harddrive sectors over 512bytes (next yr) may cure the 32bit sector problem by accident, but not the byte count.
How do you tell your Ai that things do exist after 2038 if it cannot compute the condition of things after 2038?
<me> what will X look like in 30 yrs?
<Ai> X's condition is NIL in 30 years
useless