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Slashdot thread on the topic of (time_t) 1e9 rollover bugs reports the following:
- At least one person storing a 9 digit date in MySQL
- A KDE 1.x KMail bug that prevents correct date display
- A report that the KDE news reader isn't ordering articles correctly
- A pointer to a bug report for IkonBoard that effects article sorting (for several versions of the product).
- A bug in some versions of CVSup that mangles dates
- A possible problem with Canon S10 software (on the PC side?) getting dates wrong
- Date-sorting breakage in some ISP's IMAP server
- Mention that Veritas has issued a warning that their backup software displays dates as 1970 (truncation?)
- A report of "massive breakage" in OpenLDAP 1.0 and 2.x
Perl is implicated in a few of these problems.
Not quite Y2K (and probably not as spectacular as the 2038 out-of-bits rollover is liable to be), but interesting nonetheless.