Subject: Re: Problems with current (1.6X) on vax?
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/03/2003 15:09:13
[ On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 20:20:41 (+0200), Johnny Billquist wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Problems with current (1.6X) on vax?
>
> > The year 2032 was a joke thingy.....(:+}}...
> 
> That's not the end of VAX, just the end of Unix. :-)

and only existing binary, proprietery, "UNIX Systems(tm)" at that....

> (Or was it 2036? I never can seem to remember, and I don't feel like doing
> the math again.)

Math?  What math?  That's what we have computers for:

	$ TZ=GMT0 date -r 0                       
	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 GMT 1970
	$ TZ=GMT0 date -r $(echo '2^32 - 1' | bc)
	Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038

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