Hi,
Being myself a geek parent with some education background (grad in Social Sciences), I wrote a software that my toddler (now almost 2yo) got fascinated with. Basically, it doesn't require any coordinated input but instead give audiovisual response to any keyboard or mouse interaction. My kid can stand in the computer for around 20 minutes, which, something those with a toddler at home knows, is a very good time frame.
It is free software and is hosted at my github account (you just need the latest SDL perl module installed for it to work).
Er... not trying to spoil your joke... but... the issue is not with Perl, but with most 32bit Linux machines, simply because time_t is a 32bit number and it overflows after 2038. That's a real problem that is out there and looks worse then the Y2K issue.
But maybe you're just hoping there will be no 32bit binaries in use in 2038, in which case you don't have to worry.
But notice that this problem currently affects any 32bit binary that uses the system functions to handle date and time.
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Hi, Being myself a geek parent with some education background (grad in Social Sciences), I wrote a software that my toddler (now almost 2yo) got fascinated with. Basically, it doesn't require any coordinated input but instead give audiovisual response to any keyboard or mouse interaction. My kid can stand in the computer for around 20 minutes, which, something those with a toddler at home knows, is a very good time frame. It is free software and is hosted at my github account (you just need the latest SDL perl module installed for it to work).
Er... not trying to spoil your joke... but... the issue is not with Perl, but with most 32bit Linux machines, simply because time_t is a 32bit number and it overflows after 2038. That's a real problem that is out there and looks worse then the Y2K issue. But maybe you're just hoping there will be no 32bit binaries in use in 2038, in which case you don't have to worry. But notice that this problem currently affects any 32bit binary that uses the system functions to handle date and time.