A bit OT, but:
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:01 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> What time bug? There's nothing[1] in the Unix specifications that
> requires a 32-bit clock. AFAIK the support for a 64-bit clock should
> be transparent.
There is a lucid discussion of the issue on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Whether a "Unix issue" or not, expanding time_t beyond the commonly
implemented (and signed!) 32 bits breaks binary compatibility and file
format.
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David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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