THE END of the first unix gigasecond IS NEAR

Aug. 29, 2001
6:29 a.m.
Is anyone concerned about the rollover of time_t from 9 digits to 10? This is happening at 2001-09-09 01:46:40 GMT, which is next Saturday night, or evening in the US. Check your code for S1G bugs, such as ordering timestamps using textual rather than numeric comparisons, or assuming that time_t columns require no more than 9 characters. I have set an alarm but I plan to celebrate the dawn of the new gigasecond quietly. I once made the mistake of alerting my (non-geek) friends that a leap second had just occurred ...
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Scott Harrington