Re: [OT] Time flies...

On 2025-01-10 02:00:17 +0000, Johnny Billquist said:

On 2025-01-09 20:35, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

On 2025-01-08 16:21:20 +0000, Johnny Billquist said:
 

On 2025-01-02 14:44, Simon Clubley wrote:
 

BTW, it's now a little over 13 years to the end of the world...

 For some Unix systems, yes. Not sure if that is relevant in a newsgroup for VMS...

 I'm aware of 2038 bugs that were found and fixed within OpenVMS some years back, and there may well be others awaiting.
 The OpenVMS Y2K evalation expressly excluded testing of 2038 and later dates, as well.  Terra (or tempora) incognita.
 If you're running production on OpenVMS for the next decade or so, boot up a test guest, and test your code and test your environment past 2038.

 I can definitely see that for C code using C functions. Also, wasn't there some issue with C code in some runtime environment under VMS where times were expressed as delta times which hit a problem at 10000 days?
 But apart from things centered around C one way or another, I can't see that VMS would care.

Somewhere between a third and a half of the OpenVMS operating system is written in C.
While it would be nice to make assumptions about the ubiquity of quadword and octaword time format usage, there already have been issues identified and resolved in OpenVMS itself.
I would not exclude additional 2038 issues in OpenVMS components, and in application and third-party components, from arising.
Test.
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