From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 4 17:53:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (drugs.dv.isc.org [130.155.191.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F8237B403 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marka@nominum.com) Received: from nominum.com (localhost.dv.isc.org [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f550nMv72296; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:49:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from marka@nominum.com) Message-Id: <200106050049.f550nMv72296@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: Peter van Dijk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 00:04:55 +0200." <20010605000454.X23133@dataloss.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:49:22 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The fix for the epoch problem is to have time64() or similar. time_t is badly defined. It should be allowed to die. As a developer I have to kludge around the 2038 problem today. You want to know what make Y2K a problem. People who were to short sighted to see the problem early and correct it early. 2038 in much bigger than Y2K. The sooner there is a solution to 2038 the better. Mark > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:57:47PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > [snip] > > FreeBSD staff will do such changes before 2020.;| (Are you sure > > unix systems will exist yet another 20 years?) > > Yes, I am sure unix systems will exist in another 20 years. > > Greetz, Peter > -- > dataloss networks > '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me > 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message