Greg Badros <gjb(a)cs.washington.edu&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... Yes. It will have to be done eventually. The same way we have to fix the y2038 bug sometime.[1] Thanks for the offer, but I will have to decline for the time being. Footnotes: [1] Speaking of which, is it a standard POSIX feature that negative times get treated as being before the epoch? $ cat /usr/tmp/bug.c main() { long int time = 0x7fffffff; long int time2 = 0x80000000; printf("Death at %s", ctime(&time)); printf("Afterlife at %s", ctime(&time2)); } $ /usr/tmp/bug Death at Tue Jan 19 12:14:07 2038 Afterlife at Sat Dec 14 05:45:52 1901 -- 雨が降っています。