From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 17:46:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29428 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29372 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19146; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:45:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd019097; Thu Aug 20 17:45:12 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA07257; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:45:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808210045.RAA07257@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:45:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808210035.TAA17016@unix.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Aug 20, 98 07:35:25 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... > > that's what they said 40 years ago... > > some pointy-haired boss somewhere will survive for the sole purpose of > proving you wrong... Guide: "We have spent 40,000,000 Zorkmids recreating a 20th Century computer here at the Flood Control Dam #2 Imperial Computer Museum; unfortunately some idiot set the clock to the correct time and it destroyed itself. Now moving past the smoking crater, on your right, you will see some fossilized magnetic media; magnetic media was used to store data before the invention of paper..." 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