From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:09:00 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2101070759280.26789@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210106163225.GC2973@darioniedermann.it>
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> On recent Linux/i386 kernels it's actually 64 bits. In practice, only
> users who are stuck with old i386 Linux versions will have a problem.
64 bits on my old-ish MacBook Pro and FreeBSD 10; don't know about
Penguin/OS as one of them is dead forever and the other is still in
mid-upgrade (Debian).
I still reckon that 2038 will be "interesting", and who knows what epoch
your smart kettle etc will be using (you know, the one that will switch
itself on at your usual wake-up time, and make your coffee for you)?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-06 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-31 7:19 Dave Horsfall
2020-12-31 7:24 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-31 8:10 ` arnold
2020-12-31 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-31 16:09 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-31 16:12 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-11 7:18 ` alan
2021-01-11 14:01 ` Stuart Remphrey
2020-12-31 18:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2020-12-31 21:34 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-06 16:32 ` Dario Niedermann
2021-01-06 17:08 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-06 18:05 ` Dario Niedermann
2021-01-06 18:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-06 21:09 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-12-31 19:18 ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-04 8:22 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2021-01-04 9:13 ` Angus Robinson
2021-01-04 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-04 21:56 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-05 18:05 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-06 7:21 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-07 22:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-08 1:25 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-10 6:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-04 8:59 ` Sergio Pedraja
2021-01-07 22:50 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-10 7:16 ` Valdimar Sigurdsson
2021-01-10 7:24 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-10 10:15 ` Stuart Remphrey
2020-12-31 15:05 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-31 16:51 ` arnold
2020-12-31 23:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-01-09 8:44 Norman Wilson
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