From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 5 13:09:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08490 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08481 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA09344; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:38:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id HAA81240; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:38:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:38:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Jeremy Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K, Y 2038? Message-ID: <19990106073842.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <99Jan5.205931est.40326@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <99Jan5.205931est.40326@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:00:12PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 21:00:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Jonathan Smith 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. Part of that discussion was concerned with the fact that, correctly or incorrectly, people use negative time_t's. This would break that for a comparatively minor benefit. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message