[Gllug] time_t 1e9

[Nix]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Gordon Joly gibbered:
> And will some programs fail?

Old versions of Demon Internet Simple News (a DOS program) will fail;
they store timestamps as string time_t's and assume that they are always
nine digits long.

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Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
                        -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming

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