Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Chris Nandor]

At 11:05 -0400 2000.09.14, Philip Newton wrote:
>You have another assumption up there: that time_t == signed long (since
>you're printing it with %ld) with a resolution of seconds (since you say
>"%ld seconds"). ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (draft C standard, the only C standard-y

True.  In Mac OS, time_t is unsigned long (that is how it can start at
1904-01-01 00:00:00 (local time) and still be valid today while still being
32 bits :).


>Maybe POSIX makes more guarantees.

I don't think it does, but I am not sure.

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