I remember some of the articles before 2000 claimed that many elevators,
vehicles, machineries etc will stop working in 2000. I guess many
microcontroller based application that controls such products are written in
C and use time_t instead of "YY", but not sure if an elevator would stop
working in 2038 because of this.

Tamas



On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:43 AM, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com>
wrote:

>
> >> 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
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