>> Maybe there will be minor glitches but I do not think we need to >> worry about this one The thing is that time_t is much more of an "internal" format than the two digit "year" that led to the Y2K "problems." The number of programs that store binary time_t in a database is vanishingly small compared to the number of programs that stored "YY", and you could probably change the base year, or the increment, and 80% of programs wouldn't even notice... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist