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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:22:55 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited.. 
Message-ID:  <200110270222.f9R2Mtv06821@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>  of "27 Oct 2001 03:49:15 %2B0200." <xzpwv1hq2ck.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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> Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > :These programs should *not* be trying to use these functions.  These functions
> > > :are meant for manipulating time_t, which is a representation of "now".
> > > 
> > >     Who says?
> > This is the definition of time_t.
> 
> Chapter and verse, please.  Not just a repetition of what somebody
> else says may or may not be in C90.

I'm not pointing to any standard; I'm pointing to the fundamental
assumptions that underly the use and implementation of the
seconds-from-epoch model.

You're off the topic here though.

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