10 Sep
2001
10 Sep
'01
10:32 a.m.
Re:
While IBM, HP, Dec, Intel, Microsoft, and a cast of
thousands have
been duking it out for the past 31-3/4 years, UNIX time() (ref: man 3 time)
has been steadily plodding along and has quietly ticked past 1 billion seconds
within the last day or so.
and, some programs/products have died/aborted/fouled up because
the # of seconds now takes 10 digits to represent instead of 9!
(Sigh)
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
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