Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : claw
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 11:52 pm

  Re: Re: Operating Systems
  By: claw to Digital Man on Thu Apr 11 2024 11:24 pm

 > On 11 Apr 2024, Digital Man said the following...
 >  DM> The problem is in the softare, not "the system". The system can be
 >  DM> 64-bit and still have plenty of 32-bit time_t use lurking in its
 >  DM> software. Y2K38 is definitely going to blow some shit up (figuratively,
 >  DM> if not literally). --

 > Well I will have to read more about it.  If its software then Why isn't this
 > fixed already.  Guess I will have to ready about it to know why its not
 > simple.

Because we're mostly talking about older software (e.g. 16-bit programs for MS-DOS) that hasn't been updated or supported in 20 or 30 years, the build tools and run-time libraries are no longer supported or updated (so they're not going to be migrated to 64-bit time_t's, even if that was feasible) and the source code to many of these programs was lost anyway. No, it's not a simple problem to solve.
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