Subject: Re: Y2K Compliant?
To: None <david.leonard@csee.uq.edu.au>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/29/1998 08:08:37
> Of course it mentions nothing about being Y2039 compliant.. but that's
> waaaay off.
...and much more painful to fix on most *nix systems. One solution, of
course, is to change time_t to be 63 bits instead of 31 (it's signed), but
that has some non-trivial ramifications (time_t is stored in on-disk data
structures in the filesystem and elsewhere.
-allen
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