Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Trevor Smith]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:04:54 -0500, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>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.

LOL! That's probably what they thought about all the big iron and
Cobol that they just spent 3 yrs fixing. :-)


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