[Vm-dev] Year 2037 problem

[Bert Freudenberg]

Our primitiveSecondsClock implementation uses 32 bits. It is only a VM-internal problem, the image always sees a LargeInteger anyway. But the current implementation will overflow in 2037. 

This is similar to Unix's year 2038 problem:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
But Squeak's epoch is different and we're using seconds, not milliseconds.

Nothing to worry about for a while, but at some point the VMs need be updated, to support images that still use that primitive :)

- Bert -

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