The Year 2000 problem is understood by most people these days because of the large amount of media attention it received.Read the rest here.
Most programs written in the C programming language are relatively immune to the Y2K problem, but suffer instead from the Year 2038 problem. This problem arises because most C programs use a library of routines called the standard time library (time.h). This library establishes a standard 4-byte format for the storage of time values, and also provides a number of functions for converting, displaying and calculating time values.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Year 2038 problem?
Another computer programming problem?
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