From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 25 9:55:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A1D1502F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA79700; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:55:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:55:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199910251655.MAA79700@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K In-Reply-To: <199910251620.JAA68775@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199910251620.JAA68775@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < I tried to tracing downto the time2 in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c > but had no clue how it works. That is, I could not find how the 2037 is set. > Any idea how we can fix this limitation? It is defined by being precisely 2**31 - 1 seconds after the beginning of the epoch. On systems where time_t is defined as a 64-bit type, this obviously extends to 2**63 - 1 seconds, or 106 trillion years. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message