9 Sep
2022
9 Sep
'22
11:16 p.m.
if i recall correctly, V1 of Unix had time measured in milliseconds.
were folks that sure that this would change before wrap-around?
On Sep 9, 2022, at 5:06 AM, Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Well, you can imagine what happened when the
leading digit changed
from an ASCII "9" to an ASCII "1". Oops.
I first saw a time-overflow bug more than 60 years ago. Accounting
went haywire in the Bell Labs' comp center on day 256 of the year,
when the encoded output of a new time clock reached the sign bit.
Doug