As has been pointed out in A billion seconds of Unix, the Unix clock rollover on Saturday, September 8th, 2001 is liable to cause some breakage in scripts that either assume that they can compare raw time values as strings, or which assume that the resulting string is 9 digits.

This isn't quite the scale of Y2K, but regardless is one of the unique circumstances that we get to experience in our lifetime. So let's keep a record.

As you run across clock-rollover induced script breakage, post a reply, and list the culprit.


In the interest of fairness, I did find a cmp that should have been a <=> in one of my personal scripts...)

In reply to 1E9 Seconds Hall of Shame by dws

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