[MLUG] the 2038 bug already bit me!

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My brother's birthday is on November 22.  Once every 7 years, on average, 
his birthday falls on Thanksgiving.  I was curious about when exactly that 
would occur in the future so I did something like this in the bash shell 
on a GNU Linux system:

for year in $(seq 2008 2060) ; do date -d 11/22/$year | grep Thu ; done

And if you try it, you'll see what happens -- it fails starting in 2038.

It also fails if you go back before 1970.

Mike

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