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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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