Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:32:10 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011030173210.59A5F39F4@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011030210506.G1406-100000@delplex.bde.org>
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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". 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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