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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. 
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> be used for multiplying the seconds scale by 4. (in UFS timestamps..
> you would never write a non-normalised time to disk)
> also timestamps can't be before 1970 so making it unsigned
> allows us to go to 2100+ and mutiplying it by for takes us to about 2600..

Script started on Tue Oct 30 06:55:55 2001
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> touch -t 191001011230 foo
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--  1 bde  wheel  0 Jan  1  1910 foo
ttyp1:bde@gamplex:/tmp> exit

Script done on Tue Oct 30 06:56:10 2001

Bruce


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