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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 05 August 2010 10:23:02AM 1 point [-]

Dates that far into the future don't seem to work with the date on 32-bit Linux.

Fun idea otherwise. You should report back in a month or so if you're still using it.

Comment author: gwern 10 October 2010 11:17:58PM *  0 points [-]

I had to reinstall with 32-bit to use a document scanner, so this became a problem for me. What I did was punch my 2074 date into a online converter, and use that generated date:

 - DEATH_DATE=`date --date='9 August 2074' +%s`
+ # DEATH_DATE=`date --date='9 August 2074' +%s`
+ DEATH_DATE="3300998400"
Comment author: h-H 07 August 2010 07:14:09AM *  0 points [-]

It might have an opposite effect to what is intended since the number would simply be too large.

Comment author: gwern 05 August 2010 10:29:55AM 0 points [-]

People still use 32-bit OSs?

But seriously, you could probably shell out to something else. Or you could change the output - it doesn't have to be in seconds or minutes. For example, you could call date to get the current year, and subtract that against 2074 or whatever.

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