From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 16 14: 3:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1DF14A00; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:03:13 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Omachonu Ogali" , "Matthew Hunt" Cc: "Eivind Eklund" , Subject: RE: I will never trust NBC news again! Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:03:12 -0800 Message-ID: <003301bf606d$7b846840$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > There are some institutions and organizations (such as banks and crime > > > departments) that need to record dates that happened before 1970. > Why isn't it and why can't it be? Because no currently existing standard currently guarantees the valid range of a 'time_t' to extend before 1970. If an application has specific date requirements, it must use libraries and routines that are guaranteed to function over that time range. Anything else is programming negligence. This is why I say that we desperately need a new time API. And we need to get it standardized and deployed well before 2038. :) DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message