[plug] time_t and Y2.038K

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Sun May 9 16:20:20 WST 1999


Mike Holland wrote:
>    People will probably try to keep dates 32 bit though, and change
> all the comparisons to unsigned, so it lasts another 2^31 seconds. yuck.

Can't do it, because many, many programs depend upon a signed result.

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