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- From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
- Subject: Re: The Coming Crisis
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.170234.7122@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
- References: <1993Jan26.185543.3094@tessi.com> <1993Jan28.134302.7006@stsci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:02:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.134302.7006@stsci.edu> kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball) writes:
- >George Mitchell (george@tessi.com) wrote:
- >:
- >: In less than 8007 years, asctime () will need a 28-character buffer,
- >: instead of a 27-character one, in which to return its result.
- >: -- George Mitchell (george@tessi.com)
- >
- >My God! Quick! Somebody convene a committee! (X3J10000, maybe?)
- >
- >Bartender! Smileys all around!
- >
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- That's not nearly as bad as the fact that in less than 70 years gettimeofday()
- will overflow the tv_sec member. Gee, I hope I'm still alive to see it.
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- What, this is comp.lang.c? I thought it was alt.millenium.boom.boom.boom.
- Sorry. :-) :-)
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- --
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- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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