Today's xkcd cartoon, 2038 (regarding the y2038 time issue that looms on the horizon), prompts me to foam at the mouth about the annoyingly common misconception that a 64 bit CPU and OS are required to handle 64 bit time.

Curiously, I seem to recall handling numbers much larger than 256 on my 8-bit computers. Indeed, unixoid OS's have been handling ( Read more... )