Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:49:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110300948150.26174-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20011030173210.59A5F39F4@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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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
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