RE: Date field's and their file space usage. -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: Date field's and their file space usage.
From: Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:35:04 -0600
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> Just wait until 2039 when the the unix timer variable overflows.  Plenty
> of work to do to handle that.

You don't have to wait that long...  The failure you're referencing will
occur on January 19 2038 at 3:14:08 GMT and is not tied just to Unix --
this failure could also impact a C application running on Windows, i5/OS,
etc.  It's really tied to 32-bit time variables representing the number of
seconds since January 1 1970.  The last value before wrapping is 3:14:07...

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