Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:56:23 +0900 (EST), John Angelico wrote:

>>I have
>>this one 
>>correspondent who's 
>>ISP has deliberately set the 
>>date on their Sun Unix server back 
>>28 years to save the trouble and cost of 
>>actually fixing some Y2K bug. No, swear to God
>
>You'd better not - surely *nixes don't suffer from the stupidity of Y2K?? Could it have been their own joke on the 
>wicked world of W Gates III?


The correspondent is wrong!  Unix doesn't suffer from the same Y2K bug
as the mainframes and the PC's.  Unix keeps it's date as the number of
seconds since Jan. 1, 1970.  The current 32 bit Unix's will have a
rollover problem in 2038, but since I don't expect 32 bit unix's to be
around then, I don't expect Unix to have this problem.


JBB
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