From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 13:05:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14140 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14135 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA00449 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02483 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:04:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.cybercom.net: ksmm owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:04:47 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t In-Reply-To: <19980820135620.35404@kublai.com> 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 Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Brian Cully wrote: : 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. :-) Anybody wanna wager how much of our existing system software will still be in use come then? K.S. FreeBSD: Timeless. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message