From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 30 10: 0:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E73D37B406 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA31516; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:49:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:49:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bruce Evans , Garance A Drosihn , Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: <20011030173210.59A5F39F4@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > ... UFS does not have future dates ... > > > > Script started on Tue Oct 30 21:04:39 2001 > > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> touch -t 203801011230 foo > > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> ls -l foo > > -rw-r--r-- 1 bde wheel 0 Jan 1 2038 foo > > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> exit > > I know that.. This is a contrived example. atime, mtime, ctime are defined > as the time that the file was last operated on. One does not do 30-year > mortgage calculations using ufs file timestamps. The only dates they *need* > to support is "a long time ago" through "now". where "a long time ago" is NOT before 1970.... I see not reason that the timestamps should be signed.. > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message