> In other words, if it's important to you that a compiler support dates > past 2038, your only assurance is the vendor's promise that their internal > representation is immmune to any such "flaws" in the O.S. (Or in some > cases, personal inspection of the compiler source and/or the generated > code.) But unless you're running on a bare machine, you'll be totally dependent on the OS (I presume the need is to _use_ the software after 2038, not just to have it handle dates after that when executed before).