From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/19 Message-ID: <8l31it$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 648086031 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com> <3974EE3D.1F8E016E@silver.jhuapl.edu> <39750267.DAB18CC9@silver.jhuapl.edu> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:20:39 -0400, Scott Ingram` wrote: > > >Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >> Scott Ingram` writes: >> >> > We now move to the "warranty" domain, can you warrant that C will >> > be around in 25 years? >> >> Ok, if the answer is yes, how about 38 years ? > >Larry, > >I hope you have a reason that 38 would be a significant number? >As I noted in another thread, I have little formal training in anything...and I >am way too lazy to do any math in a motel room. 2038 is when the number of seconds since the start of time (Jan 1, 1970) overflows a 32 bit counter. Many systems using a time_t that is 32 bits will fail at that time. Most Unix's are gradually switching to 64 bit systems and changing time_t to be 64 bits at that time. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http/ftp: x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, "Rock and Roll Children"