Administrivia - Billion Second Day

From: Stan Sieler <sieler_at_allegro.com>
Date: Mon Sep 10 17:32:02 2001

Re:
> While IBM, HP, Dec, Intel, Microsoft, and a cast of thousands have
> been duking it out for the past 31-3/4 years, UNIX time() (ref: man 3 time)
> has been steadily plodding along and has quietly ticked past 1 billion seconds
> within the last day or so.

and, some programs/products have died/aborted/fouled up because
the # of seconds now takes 10 digits to represent instead of 9!

(Sigh)



Stan Sieler sieler_at_allegro.com
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Received on Mon Sep 10 2001 - 17:32:02 BST