Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:10:52 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time and history Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909270907280.16794-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19990925224726.B1470@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> With any luck, we'll all be using 64-bit machines by then, and this
> won't be an issue, since time_t can be made a 64-bit value. I make 2^63
> seconds to be about 288 billion years, which is almost certainly way
> beyond the lifetime of our Sun and/or Earth. I can't see Unix's time
> mechanism changing from secs since 00:00:00 1970-01-01, it would confuse
> too many people.
This got bandied around the Alpha list some time ago, about setting
time_t to 64 bits. IIRC, we won't be seeing time_t as 64bits until
someone resolves the issue of using time_t as 32 bits within the
UFS filesystem code.
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| To be is to do -- Sartre
| Scooby do be do -- Scooby
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