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Re:Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default by rst on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:28AM (#29725066)
There are also applications which might reasonably have to process dates 16 years in the future right now. I suspect most of finance, for instance, is on 64-bit systems at this point, or we'd be hearing a little bit more about this.
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Re:Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default by dathinab on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:55AM (#29726668)
DateTime processing and system time are often handled separately with some system time to datetime time conversion.
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