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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


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