Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:15:46 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011030210857.R1525-100000@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110291247030.26174-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > and you really want us to believe that data file came form 1910? I simply refuted a false claim that timestamps can't be before 1970. > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > 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 This mailing list is approaching the quality of the average newsgroup, complete with top posting by newbies. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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