Slightly OT: when is the end of the epoch ?

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 12/3/2010 5:31 AM, william drescher wrote:
> We have a legacy SCO Unix application that is running on an OLD
> box with DataFlex.  We are rewritting the application using LAMP,
> but, as usual, it is falling behind schedule.
>
> When will the SCO box die because it hits the end of the epoch
> (when 32 bit timestamps roll over to 0 again ?).
>
> July, 2012

Far from.  Sometime in 2038.  Called in short the Y2K38 bug, though I 
heard some systems might have fixed that (?) Unknown to me though if 
it's true.  I know it's not really worth it with some vendors trying to 
work out 128bit so that we can try to make 64bit more mainstream than it 
is now and push out 32bit systems.