Ticket #505 (new todo)
avoid 2038 bug
Reported by: | coke | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
Component: | core | Version: | |
Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
Cc: | particle, dukeleto | Language: | |
Patch status: | Platform: | all |
Description
Original reported here: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57728
>> we definitely need date/time pmc(s?) not only to have a common epoch >> across platforms, but to deal with 2038. in particular, we should >> leverage schwern's work on perl to address the 2038 bug. >> ~jerry > > We definitely haven't already fixed this. Here's an easy test using > libfaketime: > > $ cat time.pir > .sub main :main > .local int time_int > time time_int > say time_int > .end > $ ./parrot time.pir > 1222213121 > $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/src/libfaketime-0.8/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME="+40y" > ./parrot time.pir > -1811314167 We can't make this example work. If you use an INTVAL, and the INTVAL can be signed 32 bits, there is no way to have a more than 31 bits unsigned stored on it as such. -- Salu2
Since this is unlikely to get resolved shortly and only has a small amount of history, moving tracking of issue here.
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