[Info-vax] Software does wear out, was: Re: Raid Controller in I64 ans Alpha(MSA$UTIL)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-01 22:56:35 +0000, David Froble said:

> Yes, there can always be issues.  Doesn't mean they will happen.
> 
> Codis uses an 8 byte string of the format "yyyymmdd" for dates.  I 
> seriously doubt we'll have any problems for the next 8000 years.

If my experiences with timekeeping within OpenVMS itself is applicable, 
I'll always look for issues with anything that's storing or 
manipulating dates.  Either directly due to the DST change or 
administrative changes or regional differnces with the DST change-over, 
or some change to the timebase standards somewhere, or a need to deal 
with multiple timezones, or some lower-level API blowing up underneath, 
or wonky NTP servers, or...  This date stuff looks so simple, and yet 
it bites so hard.


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