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Unix Epoch on a G5?

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Pipian

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Apr 22, 2003
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Can someone with a G5 see if the Clock can go past Jan. 2038?

(Look it in wikipedia for those who don't know what the Unix Epoch is)
 
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Pipian

macrumors regular
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Apr 22, 2003
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Set the clock to Jan 18th 2038 11:59:59 and see what happens, on 32 Bits it goes to 1901, on the G5 it should go on as normal
 
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legion

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Jul 31, 2003
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Originally posted by mikeyredk
from what i read on wikipedia its more to the os rather then the hardware
Click to expand...

you are correct... it's all about the OS, not the hardware.

(another insight is that UNIX has been running on 64bit machines for years (over 10 years...eg, Alpha chip, PA-RISC, SPARC) and the UNIX time issue has still continued)
 
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JeffTL

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Dec 18, 2003
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I think an all-64-bit OS X will probably solve this. It could be a Jobs keynote..."we made it through 2000 with no problems at all. Now watch as I advance the new Mac OS X 10.6 to 2038."
 
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