Date: 13 Aug 1998 19:03:08 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t Message-ID: <xzp67fwyfub.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:23:07 -0600" References: <199808130523.XAA07849@lariat.lariat.org>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> 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
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