[NTLK] 2010

[Steven Scotten]

BeOS is mostly POSIX-compliant already. Any OS that counts time from  
midnight  January 1 1970 UTC and which can't count signed integers  
higher than 2^31 is going to have trouble come January 19th 2038.  
Posix doesn't specify counting in 32 bits but it does specify using  
the Unix epoch.

It's fair to say that BeOS's POSIX compliance (or at least imitation  
of this one aspect of Unix) puts it in exactly the same camp as other  
POSIX systems when it comes to counting time. Chris C's evaluation was  
entirely accurate.

Just sayin'.


Steve

On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Kevin Keith wrote:

> BeOS isn't based on UNIX, and implementing POSIX wouldn't make it  
> so.  For
> instance, just because Windows could have Cygwin wouldn't make it  
> have the
> timeout error.
>
> 2009/11/8 Chris C <chrisc24 at gmail.com>
>
>> Probably same thing as any Posix based system.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Apostolos Koutropoulos
>> <der_admiral at me.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder when BeOS will be affected LOL :-)
>>>
>>> Από το iPhone μου
>>>
>>> Nov 5, 2009, 18:35, ο/η Chris C <chrisc24 at gmail.com> έγραψε:
>>>
>>>> Unix is next!!! :)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Pnemonic <pnemonic at gmail.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> thanx all 4 help.
>>>>>
>>>>> poor Newton!
>>>>> was so happy that Newton was Y2K bug-free when whole world was
>>>>> panicked...
>>>>> and then this had to happen.
>>>>> :-(
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> Kevin
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