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1, 1970. While this makes it safe for the dreaded year 2000, this counter will wrap
sometime in early 2038. As a result, CTime stops functioning for any date from January
2038 and up.
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Now I expect that all of my users will have upgraded to version 42 of my program by that
point, but thinking like that is where the Y2K bugs came from in the first place.
Besides, when customers or management press for information on Y2K compliance, it can
be embarrassing to have to explain why the year 2038 is in the critical path. It's
just easier to fix it.
So without further ado, I introduce my solution. I have re-written the CTime class
using the tm structure in place of the time_t structure for internal storage. My new
class is CGoodTime.
I have attempted to keep the interface consistent with the original CTime class with the
intention that this would be a straight drop-in replacement. I believe I have succeeded
in this goal with three exceptions.
- Methods that have time_t as parameters or return values in CTime have tm values in
their place, since interfacing with time_t's would defeat the purpose.
- I dropped support for the operators which return CTimeSpan. I didn't need these,
so I leave it as an exercise to you to implement these if you need them.
- I dropped support for the '#' character in the Format strings. See 2.
The sample project I've included here uses the CGoodTime class and the CTime class
to produce text output of all ways a time can be represented with the the Format
function. A radio button controls whether the output is in local time or Greenwich
Mean Time. For dates prior to 2038, the two strings should match exactly. For dates
2038 and later, CTime does not produce output.
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