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echo: bluewave
to: Tom Swartz
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2018-11-28 13:50:04
subject: Test Drive

Hello Tom,

27 Nov 18 08:26 at you wrote to Dale Shipp:

 TS> I used your full .EXE patch. Nice work! I was reading your .DOC file
 TS> on it and you mention something about the C libraries expiring in
 TS> 2038. Can you elaborate on this?

That's when the UNIX timestamp, a signed 32-bit integer, will "flip" and 
become a negative integer.  This affects pretty much everything, not just C, 
that relies on the UNIX timestamp.

A web search engine search on "2038 timestamp issue" will
elaborate even more. 
:)

Later,
Sean

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