From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 14:11:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E45514C0F for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA17314; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:10:53 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:10:52 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time and history In-Reply-To: <19990925224726.B1470@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message