On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > Tell the U admins to install a more modern Linux distro. And get 32 > more bits and sprinkle them above the CPU - it works wonders 8^) Just > make sure they don't fall onto the motherboard, as they might short > something... I always knew there was a 2^31 limitation in 32-bit OS's but I thought that was an issue of memory addressing and file sizes. Now I see that some 32-bit programs are limited to using 2^32 seconds from 1970 to 2038. I hadn't heard before that this was not a problem for 64-bit machines. I tried the date code on an Altix machine and Netfinity (two MSI supercomputers) and sure enough, the 64-bit Altix had no problem and the 32-bit Netfinity couldn't deal with 2038. Are you saying that newer 32-bit Linux distros have a new version of 'date' that can deal with 2038? Mike