| Title: | Volume 4, Take a RISC with ULTRIX |
| Notice: | Read 1.*!!!! No OSF/1 questions allowed! |
| Moderator: | SSDEVO::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Wed Jun 05 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5478 |
| Total number of notes: | 14927 |
Folks,
Forgive me if this is a rediculous question, I am neither an Ultrix nor
an Ultrix specialist.
I am wondering what the implications if any are for Ultrix (V4.3) of
the "10K day delta-time" (UNIX time issue) which is such hot news in
OpenVMS land at the moment ?
See VMSNOTES Note 238 for more information
Regards and Thanks,
Patrick.
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| 5464.1 | NABETH::alan | Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes. | Fri Mar 21 1997 14:26 | 9 | |
With computer systems able to extensively share data through various network protocols and RPC mechanisms, it is impossible to say that there isn't any implication, but left to itself ULTRIX won't have the problem. UNIX systems store time as the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 GMT and won't run out of seconds in a 32 bit count until sometime in 2038. If some programmer was so unwise as to store a delta of two times in a 16 bit or smaller field, then that program may have problem, but most just use ints... | |||||