[squid-users] September 9th 2001

Hi All,

This came in on another mailing list and thought I should pass it on.

<snip>
|> On 9 Sep 2001, at 1:46:40 UTC, the Unix time_t value (the number of
|> seconds
|> since the 1st of January 1970 0:0:0 UTC) ticks over from 999999999 to
|> 1000000000, thereby moving from being a nine digit decimal number (as it
|> has
|> been since 1973) to a ten-digit number
|
|I doubt this is huge a concern. It is very rare for time_t values to be
|printed or stored as decimals. The only likely problem is with squid log files
|and the like. I would be astounded if they ever used anything except "%d"
|formatting in these cases.
|
|<looks up squid source>
|
|Well paint me astounded, they use "%9d". (See access_log.c:accessLogSquid(),
|line 193 in the s.4-STABLE source). This should not matter as printf will
|simply expand the field to 10 characters, but it might mess up some
|simple-minded logfile analysers.
|
|(The log file analiser Calamaris will not be confused, it is written in perl
|and uses split() and float arithmetic, not scanf() and integers.)
<pins>

Regards,
Peter

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Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 18:45:58 MDT