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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:59:31 +0000 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2009 09:26, Rob Beard wrote: > > On 13/02/2009 08:32, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm sure most of you are aware of this already, but at 11:31:30 > > > tonight, the datestamp will be 1234567890. > > > > > > My geek-factor just went up by one... :o( > perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' > mine by two? > Isnt it about time we started panicing > perl -e 'print scalar localtime(2147483647),"\n";' > perl -e 'print scalar localtime(2147483648),"\n";' > unless you've got a 64 bit machine... Or you're using a library that can provide 64bit time on 32bit systems. (Yes, I wrote one - libqof1 in Debian can handle time beyond a couple of dozen times the estimated age of the universe and it can go back as far as it can go forward. Naturally, dates get a bit meaningless once you are beyond the estimated time left before the Sun envelops Earth.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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