Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:00:12 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K, Y 2038? Message-ID: <99Jan5.205931est.40326@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> wrote: > Deal with it _now_ before the Y2038 Emergency is upon us and >the world is freaking out over it. Perhaps an introduction of a 64 bit >time, A much simpler change is to make time_t an unsigned long - that gives us another 68 years grace - by which time I doubt many of us will be overly concerned :-). There was a very similar discussion some months ago regarding the timestamp field in the inode (on -hackers from memory). I don't think the discussion went anywhere fruitful. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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