At my work, I found some thing really interesting and went on to search what the heck is the deal about 'January 19, 2038'.
I did find some thought provoking information on this.
Current 32-bit Unix Systems can support dates till 'January 19, 2038', because of the max value that can be held in 32-bit integer. After that, date reverts back to the start value, which seems to be 'Dec 13, 1901'.
If you have perl installed on your Unix/Linux Systems, try to run this.
Courtesy : Internet & 2038.org
File :: date.pl
Run :: ./date.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
$ENV{'TZ'} = "GMT";
for ($time = 2147483641; $time < 2147483651; $time++)
{
print ctime($time);
}
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The output of this program looks like this on my machine!
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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
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
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Wowwwwwwww!! I hope we find a solution to this soon! Obviously, 64-bit machines would not have this problem. Else, we have to hack some fix in there!
