At 07:09 -0500 on 06/07/2013, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: Age
of datasets in hours, not days?:
John Gilmore wrote:
These six bytes are thus entirely adequate to contain any unsigned
elapsed- ยต - sec value in a 24-hour day.
Agreed. Only if all users of that 6 bytes are still using it as
*un-signed* value.
2^48 - 1 = 281,474,976,710,655
2^47 - 1 = ~142,***,***,***,***
2^46 - 1 = ~ 71,***,***,***,***
Which is much more than the needed 29,664,400,000,000 so even as
signed there is enough room (the sign and the top few bits are zero).
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