On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:01:58AM -0500, Len Philpot wrote:
> If not, what's the best approach to get the longest possible browse/retent 
> value on an existing saveset? The time values described in the nsr_getdate 
> man page are a bit strange if I'm reading it correctly. That is :
> 
> "If  a year is specified as a number in
> the range 70 and 99, 1900 is added.  If a  year  is  in
> the  range  00 and 30, 2000 is added.  The treatment of
> other years less than 100 is undefined."
> 
> How can I eg., just append 50 years to the current browse/retent dates of 
> an existing saveset? From that description, it looks like it's a max of 
> 30.

I assume they are storing dates a standard 32-bit timestamps, and that
will prevent you from passing the 2038 date.

$ perl -le 'print scalar gmtime 2**31-1'
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038

If they're using 64-bit timestamps (or unsigned 32-bit ones), I missed
it.

-- 
Darren

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