Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038?

[vetran]

Allowing for inflation, £5k a day in 2038 is worth about 10p a day now. About the same rate as AndyW's mum

yes but its quantity not quality AndyW's mum charges 10p per day per client, she is worried about the 45% tax rate.

[VectraMan]

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

As said, it's not MFC, it's the original UNIX time_t function being in all C standard libraries, which happened long before Bjarne had thought up C++. The stupid thing is that it's a signed number; if they'd made it unsigned we'd have another 68 years to worry about it.

In VS2013 at least, both time_t and MFC's CTime are 64 bit.

[BrilloPad]

Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn | Daily Mail Online

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

If anyone wants me to fix it, I'll get out of bed for £5k a day

Allowing for inflation, £5k a day in 2038 is worth about 10p a day now. About the same rate as AndyW's mum

[Sysman]

Unix timestamps when stored as a signed 32-bit integer

Still, it's nice to hear Microsoft made their systems compatible with them

At 16:53:20 UTC on 13 May 2014, the Unix time value 1,400,000,000 seconds was celebrated over the Web

Hands up who missed that one.

I know I did.

[Sysman]

Not OpenVMS, will expire 31st July 31086 at 02:48:05.47.

Can't Wait!!

You forgot things like X11 that sit atop VMS.

X11 picked from the selection because I remember that one hitting the 10,000 day limit back in 1997.

[administrator]

Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn | Daily Mail Online

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

If anyone wants me to fix it, I'll get out of bed for £5k a day

We live in hope.

[NickFitz]

Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn | Daily Mail Online

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

If anyone wants me to fix it, I'll get out of bed for £5k a day

Unix timestamps when stored as a signed 32-bit integer

Still, it's nice to hear Microsoft made their systems compatible with them

[SantaClaus]

I can't click - it's a Mail article about IT. **** that.

Anyway, can't imagine too many pre 2008 R2 systems still being about, but as usual, no doubt there will be loads of terrible code still knocking about given how many apps are still 32 bit targeted.

Yep, a lot of the stuff I worked on has been replaced by .Net.

But I know of some very old code knocking around that still forms the trade input for a well known US bank.

[Zero Liability]

Maybe we'll all be retired by then.

By computers, no less.

[vwdan]

I can't click - it's a Mail article about IT. **** that.

Anyway, can't imagine too many pre 2008 R2 systems still being about, but as usual, no doubt there will be loads of terrible code still knocking about given how many apps are still 32 bit targeted.

[d000hg]

Maybe we'll all be retired by then.

[stek]

Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn | Daily Mail Online

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

If anyone wants me to fix it, I'll get out of bed for £5k a day

Not OpenVMS, will expire 31st July 31086 at 02:48:05.47.

Can't Wait!!

[SantaClaus]

Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn | Daily Mail Online

Ah, the old Microsoft Foundation Classes CTime limitation.

If anyone wants me to fix it, I'll get out of bed for £5k a day