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Y2038: It's a Threat

• eesmith 7y ago
  > MacOS does use 64-bit time values, so there shouldn't have been a problem. But the "ls” command (and the Finder graphical application) do do some date arithmetic. I suspect that there is old code that is using a 32-bit variable, thus causing the incorrect display. I was unable to reproduce that by bypassing unzip: % touch -t 210301010000 this % ls -l this -rw-r--r-- 1 eesmith admin 0 Jan 1 2103 this