On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:52:59AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> Are you saying that newer 32-bit Linux distros have a new version of 'date'
> that can deal with 2038?
I was implying that, but I was wrong. Both Ubuntu 7.10 and Centos 5.1
32 bit have the same problem you described. Which is kind of silly -
there is no inherent limitation in the formatting part of the date
program that would force it to use 32 bits on 32 platforms. I
understand that hardware it what it is and you can only set 32 bits...
But I suspect (maybe wrongly, again) that the old beards that maintain
coreutils would just close a potential bug submission with 'works as
intended' 8^)
Cheers,
florin
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