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Re: comparing dates?

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Michael Joel wrote:
> People weren't thinking code from 1960s would still be in use to 2000
> so you had a "Y2K scare" - didn't really pan out to be a REAL problem.
> Say that somehow humans do keep things going for another 7000 years -
> I don't think comparing a 40 year span to a 7000 year span is
> realistic. Did anyone actually see code from 1960 in 2000? Or is that
> like th eY2K thing mostly stories heard from someone who heard from
> someone?
> 
> Anyway :)
> I ended up deciding to use the time stamp (mktime) to compare dates.
> 
I am sure at some stage there wont be any 32 bit timestamps left...so 
that takes us up to the year 584942419325 AD.


Comfortably longer then the lifetime of the earth.

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comparing dates? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-10-02 09:00 -0400
  Re: comparing dates? houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> - 2011-10-02 15:43 +0200
  Re: comparing dates? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-02 09:58 -0400
  Re: comparing dates? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmacdotcom@example.com> - 2011-10-02 12:36 -0400
    Re: comparing dates? gordonb.wr5h4@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-10-02 23:54 -0500
      Re: comparing dates? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmacdotcom@example.com> - 2011-10-03 11:50 -0400
        Re: comparing dates? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-03 14:59 -0400
  Re: comparing dates? bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-03 20:31 -0400
  Re: comparing dates? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-10-04 09:27 -0400
    Re: comparing dates? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-04 15:43 +0100
  Re: comparing dates? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-10-06 11:00 +0200

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