On 2025-01-19, Amelia A Lewis <amyz...@talsever.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:54:43 -0000 (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2025-01-19, Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I noticed while looking through the headers of zlib that there is >>>> a time32_t component of it. Would this mean that on January 19th >>>> 2038 our .gz's will break? >>> >>> This sounds super easy to test by just setting the clock forward to a >>> date past that. >>> Please share your results. >> >> This would be the date to try: >> >> $ date -r `calc 2^32` >> Sun Feb 7 06:28:16 GMT 2106 > > Well, yes, but that's just a little bit more! > > Amy!
You might like to look at how various data types are stored in memory and see what data type is used for time_t on a system using 32-bit time_t, it is not the same as used for the timestamp in the gzip header. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
