Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:00:52 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t Message-ID: <19980820200052.32489@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980820160323.545K-100000@shell1.cybercom.net>; from The Classiest Man Alive on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:04:47PM -0400 References: <19980820135620.35404@kublai.com> <Pine.BSI.3.95.980820160323.545K-100000@shell1.cybercom.net>
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On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:04:47PM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive woke me up to tell me: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Brian Cully wrote: > > : On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:38:22PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > : > 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. :-) > > Anybody wanna wager how much of our existing system software will still be > in use come then? Fortune!! If fortune breaks, I will cry ;) > K.S. > > FreeBSD: Timeless. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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