Closed lukecampbell closed 10 years ago
At that date, we're looking at NTP rollover/end of era. Isn't this a global problem that needs to be resolved? Shouldn't we really be looking at building a project time class that can handle NTP rollover and accurately compare data across eras?
But I appreciate your confidence in the software longevity.
We can leave this issue as outstanding. 2038 is the unix time bug where all systems that implement time_t as a int32_t will have an integer overflow. I guess 2036 is the NTP one, and NTP probably uses a uint_32 but the epoch is 1900.
Promoted to JIRA bug: https://jira.oceanobservatories.org/tasks/browse/OOIION-1862
For observations made after that date the following error is raised: