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See a possible Y2K bug in shutdown
Authored by: Cap'n Hector on Sep 02, '03 10:50:17AM

Works fine in 10.3.

I get the same behaviour in 10.2, however.



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Here is what is happening
Authored by: msbrown on Sep 02, '03 03:21:16PM

This is a UNIX thing. UNIX stores the time internally as a (usually)
signed integer (time_t). This means 31 bits' worth of seconds starting
from the UNIX epoch [0000 GMT 1 Jan 1970]. The last possible valid
date by this reference is

19 January 2038 03:14:07 UCT

OS X 10.3, being made ready for future 64-bit systems, may now be
storing time_t in a 64-bit int.



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