Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:16:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, des@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <199807092016.OAA16308@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:54:37 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709144722.619A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> Chris Dillon writes: : But maybe we should add another zero to the : front so we can claim to be year-10000 compliant. Not until time_t has more than 32 bits. To be year 10000 compliant you need to have at least 40 bits in your time_t structure, and FreeBSD, on intel, has 31 bits currently past 1970.[*] Warner [*] as all of the dates with the top bit set represent dates before 1970. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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