On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 09:39:10AM +1000, Addy Yeow wrote: > Hi list, > > Can someone explain why do we have 32-bit and 64-bit timestamp fields > instead of all being 64-bit? > > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification
Who knows? Satoshi used 32-bits and those fields can't be changed now without every single Bitcoin user changing all at once. (a "hard-fork" change) We'll probably need to do one of those eventually for other reasons, so we might as well leave fixing the timestamps until then. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000002a9a85a940c4da2951c3e91a043a44805fa286b336364d9daa
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