Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:45:16 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K, Y 2038? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105184042.1599E-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <99Jan5.205931est.40326@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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 :-). Cannot do that. Believe it or not, but you should be able to do calculations involving dates prior to 1/1/70. Perhaps if you first moved the Unix epoch back 30-40 years, but then you're back where you started. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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