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Date:      Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:16:00 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, des@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199807092016.OAA16308@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:54:37 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> Chris Dillon writes:
: But maybe we should add another zero to the 
: front so we can claim to be year-10000 compliant.

Not until time_t has more than 32 bits.  To be year 10000 compliant
you need to have at least 40 bits in your time_t structure, and
FreeBSD, on intel, has 31 bits currently past 1970.[*]

Warner

[*] as all of the dates with the top bit set represent dates before
1970.

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