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Re: Microseconds rollover?

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Subject: Re: Microseconds rollover?
From: Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:38:41 -0700
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On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Terry Ford wrote:

Take the Date Class for example. On Mac, the Total seconds are stored as an Uint32. This limits the Date to 2034 as far as I know.

Just checked again. I now think it is 12/31/2037 on Mac as that's as far as you can adjust the date in the System Preferences in 10.4.7. This limit could be in the software in the OS as well.

Terry

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