Re: [PHP-DEV] Unix timestamp maximum From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/04/01

By the time we close in on 2038 and UNIX is still around (*smile*) then
most UNIX systems will most probably have moved to 64bit timestamps, thus
requiring in the best place just a recompilation of your PHP binary and in
the worse case if you saved binary file stamps to a file, some kind of
conversion script. It's not as bad as the Y2K bug (which wasn't too bad:)

Andi

At 05:06 PM 4/4/2001 +0200, Keith Waters wrote:
>From: keith <email protected>
>Operating system: RedHat Linux
>PHP version: 4.0.4pl1
>PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
>Bug description: Unix timestamp doesnt go over Tuesday 19 January 2038
>05:11
>
>As you know, most of PHP's date and time functions use the unix
>timestamp, which wont go past Tuesday 19 January 2038 05:11, numberically
>represented by 2147483648 (ie 30 bits)
>
>Surely PHP can get clever and work around this? (ie allow bigger values
>which will translate back and forth properly up to the year 9999?)
>Otherwise we will all find outselves with a Y2K-like date nightmare!
>
>eg: currently: echo mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2099); outputs -1
>and putting any number past 2147483648 into date() wont give you
>anything past Tuesday 19 January 2038 05:11
>
>Thanks!
>regards,
>Keith
>
>
>
>
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