From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 30 9:32:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D022737B409 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:32:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9UHWAM62686 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A5F39F4; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Julian Elischer , Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: <20011030210506.G1406-100000@delplex.bde.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:32:10 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011030173210.59A5F39F4@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > ... UFS does not have future dates ... > > Script started on Tue Oct 30 21:04:39 2001 > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> touch -t 203801011230 foo > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> ls -l foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 bde wheel 0 Jan 1 2038 foo > ttyv7:bde@delplex:/tmp> exit I know that.. This is a contrived example. atime, mtime, ctime are defined as the time that the file was last operated on. One does not do 30-year mortgage calculations using ufs file timestamps. The only dates they *need* to support is "a long time ago" through "now". Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message