On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Are you still using a 100-year window since 1970 for the switchover? I seem to
> recall seeing that a long time ago, you should really switch over in 2050
> rather than 2070.
I'm doing the correct 2050 thing. I've still got to do the proper
GENERALISEDTIME support. I sort of need to do a full time management
overhall.
> As for > 2038 certs, these do exist. MS in their infinite wisdom give certs
> generated with their MakeCert utility a default validity of (get ready for
> this) 40 years(!!). However MakeCert's certs are otherwise so comprehensively
> broken that I don't know if it's worth bothering even trying to read them.
I spent a day last week digging out souce code for mktime(3) (yymmdd ->
unix-32bit time coversion). Its all those weird rules for
leapyear/leapseconds that I'm a little concerned about.
I can seem I'm going to have to go to an internal time format and handle
things internally that way. I may just do a 64 bit format, I'm not sure yet.
I need to make sure I do the conversions correctly.
eric
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