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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t
To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:03:14 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: brawley@camtech.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980814000605.A25012@astro.psu.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Aug 14, 98 00:06:05 am
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> > Question: What is wrong with using an unsigned long for time_t, instead of
> > long (which is then assumed signed).
> 
> man 3 time:
> 
>      Upon successful completion, time() returns the value of time.  Otherwise
>      a value of ((time_t) -1) is returned and the global variable errno is set
>      to indicate the error.

See also:

http://www.eunet.pt/ano2000/sun/sup_sun5.htm

Negative values are (potentially) abused for dates back to December 13th,
1901.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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