Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:55:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K Message-ID: <199910251655.MAA79700@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910251620.JAA68775@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199910251620.JAA68775@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT), jin@george.lbl.gov said: > I tried to tracing downto the time2 in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c > but had no clue how it works. That is, I could not find how the 2037 is set. > Any idea how we can fix this limitation? It is defined by being precisely 2**31 - 1 seconds after the beginning of the epoch. On systems where time_t is defined as a 64-bit type, this obviously extends to 2**63 - 1 seconds, or 106 trillion years. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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