[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2008-03-28T11:42:25 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> Simply not true.  A good place to start is the FreeBSD ports-tree

> which contains about 18000 piece of open source software.


Is there a detailed inventory of how many of those break in 2038?
And how many break as binaries vs. how many would work if recompiled?

If the ITU-R cannot find a unilateral stance then it may be time to
start thinking compromise.

Is getting the leaps out of the system's time_t worth the other hassle?

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