Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:03:05 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t Message-ID: <4.1.0.44.19980813150058.03f4dd80@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <199808131924.MAA00367@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:41:05 MDT." <199808131752.LAA13123@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 12:24 PM 8/13/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I'd kind of like to do financial projections for my retirement and not >> have the calculations blow up, as they do now. > >time_t is a format for the system current time. As such, you're abusing >it mightily if you expect it to be a general-purpose time value. It's used throughout UNIX and UNIX programs as such. And rightfully so; it's silly to have multiple date formats. >Might I suggest that you should consider using something with perhaps a >slightly reduced precision, like anyone else that does work involving >longer timeframes? This would create an incompatible notation and would make life much more difficult than fixing the basic problem. >time_t is not a hammer. Nope, but I don't intend to carry an entire box of tools to screw in a light bulb.... ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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