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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:57:44 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited.. 
Message-ID:  <20011030065641.B13960-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110291010010.26174-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> be used for multiplying the seconds scale by 4. (in UFS timestamps..
> you would never write a non-normalised time to disk)
> also timestamps can't be before 1970 so making it unsigned
> allows us to go to 2100+ and mutiplying it by for takes us to about 2600..

Script started on Tue Oct 30 06:55:55 2001
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> touch -t 191001011230 foo
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--  1 bde  wheel  0 Jan  1  1910 foo
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> exit

Script done on Tue Oct 30 06:56:10 2001

Bruce


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