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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Russell Horn wrote:
>
> > You can even see if your computer is affected with this bit of perl.
>
> OK. I ran that code (below) and this is what I got back:
>
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
>
> So does that mean I am affected or what?
Well, looking at the code you can see that you're getting a wrong
answer in that you're stuck at 03:14:07 for ever. :-) For what it's
worth, Mac OS X 10.3 (which is Darwin underneath) gives the same
answer. In a couple of years, Mac OS will be written for 64-bitness
throughout, but I'm not sure whether they can "fix" this at that
time if POSIX requires a 32-bit integer for seconds in the epoch.
Anybody know better?
jking
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