Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2007 22:03:40 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>   
>> 32-bit time will run out sometime in 2038.
>> This gives us 31 years to convert to 64-bit time.
>>     
>
> Actually it's a signed long, which means 2147483647 seconds, or just over 68 
> years. An unsigned value would be about twice that
>
> But since it's typedef:ed to "long", all we have to do is stop buying 32 bit 
> machines, the modern 64 bit systems are already safe until well after the sun 
> explodes in a few billion years' time :)
>
>   

Hopefully, I'll have a 128 bit system by then.   ;-)


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