Re: FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:09 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > I think we should petition our OS designers to think > ahead. The short-sightedness of programmers caused > the Y2K issue, we should avoid repeating our mistakes. like dude, relax. according to Moore's law the last CPU upgrade o

Re: FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> This is a problem for us historians. I would hope > that perl designers, among others, are thinking > about wide date ranges... AFAIK the Linux kernel people are complaining about having a year 40 (1sf) problem. Obviously, if time travel becomes possible then we'll need a range of several

FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Richard Smith
This is a problem for us historians. I would hope that perl designers, among others, are thinking about wide date ranges... Thanx, Smiddy ( About that log message from AD 61, ... ) -Original Message- From: Michael Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:42 AM