2038: only 21 years away
2038: only 21 years away
Posted Mar 17, 2017 23:18 UTC (Fri) by plugwash (subscriber, #29694)In reply to: 2038: only 21 years away by gdt
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The minimum date representable by a 32-bit signed time_t is "Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:52".
Most dates people use in everyday life are relatively close to the present day. Few things are scheduled more than a few years in advance.
Birthdates could be a potential issue but even in 1970 most people born in 1901 or earlier would have been retired.
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2038: only 21 years away
Posted Mar 17, 2017 23:27 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> Most dates people use in everyday life are relatively close to the present day. Few things are scheduled more than a few years in advance.
Software that "mostly works" is indeed plenty good enough to sell and make money. So why would anyone go the extra mile? Any customer who can't tolerate infrequent crashes, security breaches and unsupported corner cases will either need to spend a lot more money or be left high and dry. Sometimes both.
2038: only 21 years away
Posted Mar 18, 2017 13:15 UTC (Sat) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link]
The problem is that software that does the right thing, isn't available as soon, costs much more and then has no user base, when compared to software developed with compromises which ships sooner. Release early and often, is similarly a better survival characteristic than over-engineering for the very long term.