[OpenAFS] HELP! We 've lost our sync site

[Derek Atkins]

Rodney M Dyer <rmdyer@uncc.edu> writes:

>> the broken behaviour simply doesn't happen before 10-Jan-2004
>> 13:38:03 UTC.
>
> I would love to know the original reasoning for this one.  What were
> they saving those last bits for?  So lets see, anyone we can blame by
> name?  Ha!  Who would have thought that there would be a Y2K'ish
> rollover issue in AFS.
>
> Never a dull IT moment.  ;)

Well, we DO still have a Y2038 issue..  (or is it 2034?).. when
it will overfill beyond 2^31.

But we'll have moved to 64-bit ints by then... Right?? ;)

-derek
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