Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:24:04 +1030 (CST) From: brawley@communica.com.au (Ivan Brawley) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Year 2000 time change(Format support) Message-ID: <9701062254.AA28821@communica.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E0vh9KL-0004U0-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jan 6, 97 00:18:33 am
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> : How about the year 2038 problem, then ? =-) I believe time_t > : overflows then. > Only if we're all still running 32 bit hardware, or with a 32 bit > time_t :-) Its solely if we are using a 31bit time_t. (its a signed long). Make it an unsigned long and we get another 68 (or there abouts) years. Make it a 64bit number (yeah, will need to add extra code to handle the maths) and be set for quite a while... But then again, why use 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 as the epoch. Its only used for hysterical (historical, these words are usually inter-changeable :-) reasons. ivan.
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