Y2K proofness reference

[Ralph Grothe]

Hi everyone,

this is yet another question addressing the Y2K "issue" on Unix boxes in general and HP-UX in particular.

I was asked by my boss (who is Unix-skilled) about possibly lurking Y2K impacts on HP-UX, for he's been asked this by our red tape gang.

As we both knew, on a 32Bit system this is going to become an issue around 2038,

for
$ echo 2^31/60/60/24/365+1970 | bc -l
2038.09625976661593099949

This is because the RTC, I think to have read somewhere, counts the seconds from 1970 UTC 00:00

Since we're running a 64Bit kernel

#getconf KERNEL_BITS
64

I guess our solar system will long have faded out of existence before a 64Bit seconds count reaches its upper boundary.

But I need some sort of official "proof/testemony".

Any suggestions (e.g. URLs) where I can find such to please our bosses?

Regards
Ralph

[Cheryl Griffin]

Try ITRC Knowledge Base document, UNX1100029 "Is a 64-bit HP-UX operating system required to handle dates past 2038?"

See if this link works for you:
http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=50e743740252cb53bf/screen=ckiSearchResults

Even better, try here:
http://devresource.hp.com/STK/class_date_list.html

And here:
http://devresource.hp.com/STK/class_32_list.html