The universe didn't start in 1970 On Monday, October 5, 2020, Roderick wrote: > > The result of time() has type time_t and we know what kind of number > goes there: seconds since 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, > 1970, Coordinated Universal Time. > > In my FreeBSD running on a 64 bit processor this type is: int (__32_t). > It considers this size enough for above information. > > In my OpenBSD running on a 32 bit processor this type is: long long > (__64_t). > > None of both has an unsigned type, although time moves forward > (more or less fast!!!). > > Is there a reason for this discrepancy? Is there no standard for the > size of time_t? > > And what does mean the types with __? I find it so confusing. :) > > Rod. > >
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