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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:11:44 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [current tinderbox] failure on alpha/alpha 
Message-ID:  <11069.1110892304@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:04:35 %2B0100." <86u0ndktd8.fsf@xps.des.no> 

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In message <86u0ndktd8.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:
>Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> writes:
>> Also, <don asbestos undies>, is there a specific reason for not having a 64bit
>> wide time_t on Alpha?
>
>Historical reasons (comptability with OSF/1, I believe).  Changing to
>a 64-bit time_t at this point would be inadvisable.

The entire time_t thing is on hold right now, pending the outcome of
ITU-R study group 7As work to revise TF.460-6 (ITU-R question 102/7)

Once we know the result of that, we can decide _in general_ what the
future holds for time_t.

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