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Re: [Activetcl] FW: highest allowed clock value?
by Jeff Dinsmore other posts by this author
Nov 5 2009 6:00AM messages near this date
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Re: [Activetcl] FW: highest allowed clock value? | Re: [Activetcl] FW: highest allowed clock value?
Or, perhaps we should start remediation now - so we're not pinched like
we were with Y2K...

-----Original Message-----
From: Perez, Aaron P. [mailto:Aaron.Perez@[...].com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:42 PM
To: Kevin Kenny
Cc: Jeff Hobbs; Andreas Kupries; Activetcl@activestate.com; ML
Subject: Re: [Activetcl] FW: highest allowed clock value?

Actually, that a Y100K problem.

Hopefully, we'll have a fix during the next 97990+ years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kenny [mailto:kevin.b.kenny@[...].com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:38 PM
To: Perez, Aaron P.
Cc: Andreas Kupries; Wunderlich, Thomas; Jeff Hobbs; Activetcl ML
Subject: Re: [Activetcl] FW: highest allowed clock value?

Perez, Aaron P. wrote:
>  Here's what I found just playing around with [clock scan [clock
format]].
> 
> 
> 
>  Running various numbers through I maxed out at
> 
>  clock scan [clock format 3093528009599]
> 
> 
> 
>  If, however, I put in 3093528009600 I get
> 
>  unable to convert date-time string "Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 PST 100000"
> 
> 
> 
>  I then ran clock format 3093528009599 by itself and get the date-time
>  string above 01/01/100000 @ 00:00:00.
> 
>  So it looks like some clock options don't take the same data width as
>  others.

Yes, [clock scan] has a Y10K problem.  I'm planning to let posterity
worry about that one.

Kevin

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