jmke

Early UNIX programmers had quite a sense of humor. In their documentation for the tunefs utility, a command-line program that fine-tuned the file system on the machine's hard disk, a note at the end reads "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." A later generation of UNIX authors, fearful that stuffy, humorless corporate drones would remove this cherished pun, added a programmer's comment inside the documentation's source code that read, "Take this out and a UNIX demon will dog your steps until the time_t's wrap around!"

On January 19, 2038, that is precisely what's going to happen.

http://pw2.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html

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piotke

I doubt the fact that we will be still using software based on the current base.

I know we are stil working with some older principes and ideas....

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geoffrey

2nd that piotr

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