On approximately 1/31/2008 2:14 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of David Landgren: > Make Perl Y2038 safe > > Michael G. Schwern saw no reason why date operations involving results > that pushed out beyond 2038 (and thus wrap around the 32 time_t > quantity) should not just do The Right Thing. No takers. > > hopefully I shall be retired by then > http://xrl.us/bev2a But will your kid's mortgage be retired by then? 2038 is an issue now, for long term calculations... Especially if you are in risk of foreclosure, and looking at refi with a 40 year mortgage, and trying to do date calculations... if so, I hope your time_t is bigger than 32 bits... -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration NetworkingThread Previous | Thread Next