On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Jinx wrote:

> The 2038 problem affects programs that use the Posix time representation,
> which represents time as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. This
> representation is standard in Unix-like operating systems and also affects
> software written for most operating systems because of the broad deployment
> of C.

Possible discussions as to how this could be handled were held before 
Y2K. It is fairly trivial to do in the C libraries, and some 
applications will beed to be fixed and recompiled. That is not a problem 
for open source *nix. As to legacy systems ... well they are called 
legacy for a reason I guess.

If oil will really run out and no other good solution will be found, 
then it is possible that most people will run crank-powered mechanical 
abacuses with more than 64 bits in 35 years or so.

Peter
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