From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 08:56:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00800 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [205.159.88.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00787 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:beattie@shell2.aracnet.com [205.159.88.20]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA01009; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:54:54 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id IAA19735; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:56:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:56:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Garance A Drosihn cc: joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > If time_t were 48 bits, when would we be running into *that* limit? > 2^48/(365.25*24*60*60)+1970 = 8921373 Sometime around 8,921,373 CE Brian Beattie | If my corporate life has taught me anything, beattie@aracnet.com | it was that running multi-million dollar www.aracnet.com/~beattie | projects in no way implied managerial competence. | Tony Porczyk ( in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message