Pythonic Y2K
DL Neil
PythonList at DancesWithMice.info
Thu Jan 17 16:47:10 EST 2019
On 17/01/19 6:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:55 PM Avi Gross <avigross at verizon.net> wrote:
>> The forthcoming UNIX 2038 problem will, paradoxically happen on January 19.
>>
>
> Paradoxically? What do you mean by that?
First we had to duck the Y2K problem.
By moving everything to 64-bits, we duck the Unix Millennium problem.
There you go: two ducks - a pair-o-ducks!
I assume the paradox involves noting that the end of the (32-bit) Unix
epoch, does not coincide with the end of a (Gregorian) calendar year.
Actually, aren't there three date-time problems to be ducked? Wasn't
Python's move to having wider timestamps (+= fractions of seconds) in
part connected with the need to modify NTP - which hits the wall a few
years before 2038...
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Regards =dn
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