[CentOS] 2038 year Problem

Stephen John Smoogen
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:29:09 -0000

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 09:50, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
>
> On 10/02/2018 12:41 PM, Johann Fock wrote:
> > Hallo
> > Im using CentOS 7
> > Ist the 2038 year Problem solved in CentOS 7.5 64 bit Version
> >
>
> Well, CentOS-7 will be EOL'ed on 30 June 2024 so does it matter?

If you have code which is calculating 20 year mortgages and a base
CentOS program gives you negative time in 64 bits then it is a problem
even if the OS is not going to be around in 2038. [This is where
problems were showing up in 1998 and 2008 when 40 year and 30 year
contracts/mortgages started getting used in some sort of software and
getting weird times.]

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Stephen J Smoogen.