Serial number too big.

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Mon May 9 18:46:29 UTC 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:44:52AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
...
> > A convention which you may have been following is:
> > 
> > 	YYYYMMDDnn
> > 	2005050600
> > 
> > This is designed to nicely keep us under (2^31-1):
> > 	2147483647
> > for another few years; hopefully not only my kids but any grandkids will
> > be out of college by then, and I'll be retired.  ;-)
> 
> 	Actually YYYYMMDDnn  works until the end of 4294.
...

When did they change it from unsigned 31-bit to unsigned 32-bit?

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Joe Yao
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