From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 15:14:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07710 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07674 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17198; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd017077; Thu Aug 20 15:13:54 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28422; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:13:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808202213.PAA28422@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t To: shmit@kublai.com Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:13:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980820135620.35404@kublai.com> from "Brian Cully" at Aug 20, 98 01:56:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. :-) In 40 years, none of the COBOL programs we write will still be running... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message