From: John P. Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Mon 02 Sep 2002 - 08:30:38 IST
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:14:17PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, kevin lyda wrote:
>
> > gnu date is limited by time_t. but i thought time_t expired in 2037?
> > this seems to show it expiring in 2038:
>
> (2^31-1)/3600/24/365+1970
> 2038
>
> course, on UltraSparc, x86-64, IA64, alpha, etc:
>
> (2^63-1)/3600/24/365+1970
> 292471210647
>
> so we should be safe enough.
May I assume that x86-64 will be able to use a 64bit time_t too?
Kate
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