Re: linux clock overun in 2038 - a solution

1998-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote: while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt we also just set the 0 to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ? There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last long enough, no need to change the epoch! And it would

Re: linux clock overun in 2038 - a solution

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote: while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt we also just set the 0 to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ? There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last long