Re: 2038 bug

There are plenty of reasons you might want to do a date calculation that went beyond 2038, for example printing a table of predicted values by year for a retirement investment policy, or calculating a mortgage amortisation table, or working out what day of the week to schedule your retirement party.

Sure, but those are dates. One doesn't calculate a mortgage amortisation table with a precision of a second, nor are parties planned to start at a specific second.

Abigail

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Re: Re: 2038 bug by grantm (Parson) on Apr 11, 2003 at 10:36 UTC
Sure, but those are dates. Agreed. But Perl doesn't provide standard tools for dealing with dates, only date/times.	[reply]
Re: Re: 2038 bug by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Apr 14, 2003 at 12:33 UTC
One doesn't calculate a mortgage amortisation table with a precision of a second, nor are parties planned to start at a specific second. You've never met my German ex-fiance, have you? -- tbone1 Ain't enough 'O's in 'stoopid' to describe that guy. - Dave "the King" Wilson	[reply]