So, which NERD didn't tell me about this one?? Hm

Grazie wrote on 2/14/2009, 12:51 AM

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5727189.eceUnix time will be 1234567890[/link]

. .and you thought I wouldn't remember? Ah . . . .

Grazie

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musicvid10 wrote on 2/14/2009, 1:00 AM

I saw that one coming earlier today while working on a perl script. Had occasion to call Unix time while resolving a bug. But sorry I didn't alert you.

But the point is, none of us be alive when Unix time reaches 9876543210.

That would be Fri, 22 Dec 2282 20:13:30 GMT

Grazie wrote on 2/14/2009, 1:05 AM

Y'know what MV? I am impressed. Nay, laddie, I'm in awe!!!

Grazie

essami wrote on 2/14/2009, 6:02 AM

Phew! I knew there was a reason I got the 64-bit OS!

musicvid10 wrote on 2/14/2009, 8:56 AM

If anyone's interested, here's how to get an RFC-822 compliant date from Unix Time (required for RSS feeds) in Perl.

    # Gets the current time in RFC822 format

      sub rfc822 {

	use POSIX qw(strftime);

	# Alternate module below

	# use Date::Format;

	my @BuildDate = localtime(time);

	$BuildDate = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", @BuildDate);

	}

Now that would really be impressive if anyone used Perl anymore. It's much easier in PHP since 'strftime' is a built-in function.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/14/2009, 9:05 AM

But the point is, none of us be alive when Unix time reaches 9876543210.

it can't do that! :)
The problem with a 32-bit integer like this is that it can only count 4,294,967,296 seconds, or 136 years. This covers a period between 1901 and 2038.!!! :D

doesn't count leap years either, technically, it would end 34.25 days earlier then if we didn't use leapyears! Eek!

musicvid10 wrote on 2/14/2009, 1:04 PM

"This covers a period between 1901 and 2038."

You are right.
I researched this a bit, and signed Unix time_t, which you are referring to, has already been ported to 64 bit on several servers and OS.
Same for POSIX Unix time, which starts at the 1-1-70 epoch, and would take us to the year 2106 on 32 bit.

Either way, I bet they have it sorted before 2038, when I won't have to worry about it. I read that 64 bit could run for 300,000 years.