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2038, eh?
Some of my camcorders won’t allow setting a date past 2029.
Some of my camcorders won’t allow setting a date past 2029.
I can recall the concern in 1999. But the company I worked for then (a Gannett owned newspaper) was all Mac and nobody there gave it much thought.
Y2K and 2038
xkcd.com
I was 29 that year. 2038…SMH. I will be 67.
There is an insightful write-up from user kernigh here:
apple.stackexchange.com
As described, 10.6 was the first OS X to redefine how time is stored (as 64-bit). It would be interesting to find out how the PowerPC Snow Leopard project will handle manually setting dates via Terminal.
Also described by other comments, even El Capitan won’t allow dates to be set past 2038 via System Preferences, but this can be achieved on such systems using the date command.
An interesting sidebar however is Apple made claims Mac OS 9 Is capable of dates until the year 29,940.
Is any version of OS X/macOS vulnerable to the Year 2038 problem?
Around the year 2000, Apple wrote a press release that every Mac since 1984 would avoid the Y2K problem, and could process dates for the next several thousand years. The good news is that since t...
As described, 10.6 was the first OS X to redefine how time is stored (as 64-bit). It would be interesting to find out how the PowerPC Snow Leopard project will handle manually setting dates via Terminal.
Also described by other comments, even El Capitan won’t allow dates to be set past 2038 via System Preferences, but this can be achieved on such systems using the date command.
An interesting sidebar however is Apple made claims Mac OS 9 Is capable of dates until the year 29,940.
