y2038 Grant Delivered.
Wed, 22-Oct-2008 by
Alberto Simões
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Michael Schwern just finished the y2038 grant. Follows a small report.<br /><blockquote><i><br />The y2038 grant has shipped all its deliverables. You can read the full break down here: <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eschwern/journal/37688">http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/37688</a><br /><br />In short...<br /></i><ul><li><i>There is now a patch (actually a branch) for bleadperl to universally solve the year 2038 problem. Its integration is delayed until 5.8.9 is released.</i></li><li><i>There's nothing stopping it from going into 5.10.x and 5.8.x, that's up to</i><i> the pumpkings, but it is too late for 5.8.9.</i></li><li><i>The work is not specific to Perl, there is a generic replacement for time.h</i><i> at <a href="http://y2038.googlecode.com/">http://y2038.googlecode.com/</a> being developed. It needs help from C</i><i> programmers and cross-platform testers. Ruby and Python are targeted next.</i><br /></li></ul><i>Finally, you don't have to wait for a new Perl to ship. Simply use Time::y2038 to get safe versions of localtime(), gmtime(), timelocal() and timegm(): <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eschwern/journal/37702">http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/37702</a></i><br /></blockquote>The Perl Foundation thanks Michael Schwern and Merjin Brand for all their hard work on this successful project.<br />
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