On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:10 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Will there be that many 32 bit systems left by then?


FreeBSD has 64bit time_t everywhere except i386. We looked at compat shims
and found like 200 system calls would need compat shims to keep a stable
ABI. Creating a new ABI is mostly a matter of fixing the places that know
time_t is 32 bit on i386.

Most likely, though, it will just be retired 15 years or so before the
deadline.


time_t these
> days tends to be 64 bits, and I think at least the Linux file systems
> store them that way.


Time_t was still 32 bits last I checked on i386 and a few others...

Microsoft counts time from January 1, 1980, so
> that buys them until 2048. :-)
>
> I'll be (G-d willing) 79 then; I hope around, but I also hope not
> overly involved with computers. :-)
>

I'll only be 72... with LORAN-C retired in the US the last of the
potentially problematic[*] code I've deployed is gone.

Warner

[*] Purely from a 32 bit time_t perspective.

Arnold
>
> Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'll be a mere 58, so not even retired yet. I fear it will be a very
> > interesting time, in the "May you live in interesting times" sense.
> >
> > Niklas
> >
> > Den tors 31 dec. 2020 kl 08:21 skrev Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>:
> >
> > > As the new year is about to kick in (down-under anyway), it got me to
> > > thinking (always dangerous): how many here will be around for it to
> pick
> > > up the pieces that are no doubt still lying around?
> > >
> > > I'll be about the ripe old age of 85, so I may be around to see the
> > > Imminent Death of the Internet (Film at 11).
> > >
> > > 2100?  Forget it...  Too bad, as "Revolt in 2100 (?)" is one of my
> > > favourite Heinlein books.
> > >
> > > Others?
> > >
> > > -- Dave
> > >
>