Silly season

Greg A. Woods woods at most.weird.com
Thu Dec 23 19:28:24 UTC 1999


[ On Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 23:58:21 (-0500), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Silly season
>
> it would be better, imho, to go to a 64 bit signed time_t, but that
> would be a major flag day.

"would be"!?!?!  :-)

No, it *WILL* be an important day, but it will happen on a per-system
basis (and perhaps per-protocol basis if indeed there are any network
protocols carrying time_t or similar values).

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