From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 10:03:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28003 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27991 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:03:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hel.ifi.uio.no (2602@hel.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.91]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id TAA27373; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:03:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hel.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:03:09 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t References: <199808130523.XAA07849@lariat.lariat.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 13 Aug 1998 19:03:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:23:07 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA27997 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass writes: > How soon will FreeBSD move to a 64-bit time_t? The article at > > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/14390.html > > paints a dire picture; it'd be nice to say that FreeBSD solves the problem > already. Well, they could at least have gone to the trouble of getting the facts right. ``Time is measured in seconds since midnight, 1 January 1970 -- this is known as the "epoch." It is stored in such systems in a variable called "time_t," which can store a value up to 2,147,483,647 -- but no larger.'' DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message