On 16 Jun 2012, at 23:48, Matthias Melcher wrote:

> On 16.06.2012, at 22:58, Ian MacArthur wrote:
> 
>> On 16 Jun 2012, at 00:10, Matthias Melcher wrote:
>>> 
>>> OK, I think I have Connect pretty stable. I will implement HTTP GET in the 
>>> next days and then fix FTP (I may remove the file date stuff...). Comments 
>>> and suggestions are welcome ;-)
>> 
>> (Without actually writing any code to use...) I had imagined we could do the 
>> time / date stuff just by reverting to some sort of "lowest common 
>> denominator" (e.g. time_t perhaps) and convert the OSX stat values to that 
>> format internally... And then it would all "just work" and ...
>> 
>> Well. I don't know really...
> 
> Yes, sounds like a good idea. I think that Apple used a struct instead of 
> time_t to avoid running into some y2k issue. Not sure when time_t will wrap?!

Ah, well that depends on what size you think time_t is... If it is a signed 
32-bit int, then sometime in 2038. If it's 64-bit, well, then we are not so 
worried I guess! (Approx. 292 Billion years, in case anyone was wondering...)







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