From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 10:57:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22854 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:57:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22838 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: from natasya.kublai.com (natasya.kublai.com [207.172.25.236]) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07701; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:56:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00642; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980820135620.35404@kublai.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:56:20 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: Garance A Drosihn , joelh@gnu.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199808192249.RAA14808@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Garance A Drosihn on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:38:22PM -0400 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:38:22PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > If time_t were 48 bits, when would we be running into *that* limit? In about four million years. I think all of us will probably have to newfs our drives by then. :-) -- Brian Cully ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message