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Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl

posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 02 2018, @09:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-wget-it dept.

canopic jug writes:

curl is a text-based utility and library for transferring data identified by their URLs. It is now year-2038 safe even on 32-bit systems. Daniel Stenberg, the orginal hacker of curl, has overseen a year-2038 fix for 32-bit systems. Without specific modifications, 32-bit systems cannot handle dates beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. After that date, the time counter flips over and starts over again at zero, which would be the beginning of the UNIX epoch known as 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. Given the pervasiveness of 32-bit embedded systems and their long service lives, this is a serious problem and good (essential) to have fixed decades in advance. The OpenBSD project was the first major software project to take steps to avoid potential disaster from 32-bit time and awareness has since started to spread to other key software project such as curl.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @06:13PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday February 02 2018, @06:13PM (#632079)

    > intel 32 bit platforms are almost completely nonexistent anymore.

    True, only a few hundred million embedded systems ... almost nothing !
    Gladly, most will indeed be obsolete by 2038.
    But how many nuclear subs will not be?

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