topic Re: time-overflow in Operating System - HP-UX

time-overflow

Günther Hänsel — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 10:32:32 GMT

do you think, there will be a problem in
time-overflow to 1.000.000.000 seconds?

Re: time-overflow

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:22:46 GMT

Hi

Are you trying to do calculations on this or do you have a process that is based on a 31.68808781403 Year cycle ?

Paula

Re: time-overflow

John Palmer — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:32:14 GMT

I take it you mean the value of 'seconds since the epoch' which in the UK equates to Sun Sep 9 02:46:40 2001.

There didn't ought to be a problem as the standard C routines use a 'time_t' variable type which will be at least a 32 bit integer value and is good until sometime in 2037.

Interesting question though. I wonder if the 'Y2K police' are aware of it?

Regards,
John