The 2001-09-09 bug...

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: reproduced for info, note newsgroups line & FU :

In news:comp.software.year-2000, Falissard <th.fal...@etic.fr> wrote
at Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:03:57 :-

>The Un*x time function time_t counts seconds elapsed from 1/1/1970
>(the Base Date for UN*X).
>
>On 2001-09-09 at 01:46:40 GMT ...
> ... exactly 1 billion seconds
>have elapsed since the base date.
>
>I got a bug in some homegrown compiled REXX programs because
>1 billion = 1000000000 represents 10 digits, and REXX by default
>handles only 9 digits ("numeric digits 9" is the default value).
>I had to increase the "numeric digits" value...

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