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To: Bill Desjardins <bill@carracing.com> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000 this year! Date: 09 Mar 2001 00:27:54 -0800 >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Desjardins <bill@carracing.com> writes: Bill> Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year Bill> on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and Bill> gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but Bill> me is using the timestamp in ways that were set to 9 digits, such as DB Bill> column int length or in strings of fixed lengths, but these possibilities Bill> should be looked at just in case they could fail when the time changes to Bill> the longer int. Bill> Just a heads up, hope it helps someone. I've been showing it on my homepage for the past 6 months. For an RSS file with the timestamp, invoke http://www.stonehenge.com/u1e9.html And yes, I've written programs that will definitely break on that time. So if I've done it, I bet others have done it as well. The sad thing is that unlike Y2K, this thing cuts in all at the same time all over the world. Fun fun fun. ===