Subj : Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year To : All From : Kst-u@mib.org Date : Sat Dec 31 2016 03:59 pm From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year Mark Lloyd writes: > On 12/30/2016 07:48 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: >> Mark Lloyd writes: [...] >>> Used to be 32-bit, why I thought Y2K was going to be much less of a >>> problem than Y2.038K (Jan 17 2038 IIRC). >> [...] >> >> Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC > > I knew it was around that time, from having to deal with that when my > website was on a 32-bit server. IIRC the negative limit is in December 1901. Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC If you have the GNU coreutils date command, you can do: $ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @-2147483648 Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC $ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @2147483647 Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC $ -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister" --- ViaMAIL!/WC v2.00 * Origin: ViaMAIL! - Lightning Fast Mailer for Wildcat! (1:261/20) .