Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM Cc: oogali@intranova.net (Omachonu Ogali), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund), mph@astro.caltech.edu (Matthew Hunt) Subject: Re: time_t (was Re: I will never trust NBC news again!) Message-ID: <200001181758.KAA07986@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000116150238.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> from "Will Andrews" at Jan 16, 2000 03:02:38 PM
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> > Why isn't it and why can't it be? > > Historical reasons. You're asking the entire computer industry > to change the standard libraries' use of the time_t typedef. > time_t starts on January 1, 1970 at 00:00 UTC. People who need > dates before that can write their own timekeeping libraries > that can easily "drop in" for their C libraries. > > Banks, crime depts, etc. are only a small portion of the "computer > user" legion. It would be a completely ridiculous idea to change > time_t everywhere. I would predict chaos, quite frankly. time_t is a signed value. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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