"REPENT FOR THE END OF THE UNIX EPOCH IS NIGH" [0] ... was a very entertaining and interesting talk from linux.conf.au 2013. The first ten or so minutes is ama

"REPENT FOR THE END OF THE UNIX EPOCH IS NIGH" [0] ... was a very entertaining and interesting talk from linux.conf.au 2013. The first ten or so minutes is amazing theater and quite hilarious (at least it was when I saw it live), and the remaining talk is also very informative. It deals with quite a clever way to re-use the existing timezone databases that are designed to work with 32bit dates, such that they are usable with 64bit dates. This is important, because it is already an extremely difficult task to keep the original 32bit timezone databases up to date (what with all of the political decisions to change daylight savings - at a few months notice). The talk is from the perspective of a perl developer, but the discussion is for anyone who is interested in solving the Year 2038 Problem in their language of choice. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQFZ_MPTVpc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQFZ_MPTVpc or 91mb mp4 download: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/REPENT_FOR_THE_END_OF_THE_UNIX_EPOCH_IS_NIGH.mp4 http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/REPENT_FOR...