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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 01:55:17PM -0900, Aaron Dewell wrote: > > Or February 6, 2106 at 6:28:14 if your UNIX system keeps an unsigned 32-bit > time_t. I Y2.038k tested my Solaris 7 box, it kept time past 3:14 AM 1/19/38, > but the date command would not set it. Which implies that the kernel itself is > unsigned, while the date command uses a signed number. Wasting an entire 2 billion seconds to check for a -1 error condition instead of the one's complement 0xFFFFFFFF is remarkably stupid imho. But it would break a lot of userland programs to change. As far as I know in BSD it is still a signed long, at least in machine/ansi.h. -- Richard A. Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://users.quadrunner.com/humble PGP Key ID: 0x60AB0AD1 (E5 35 10 1D DE 7D 8C A7 09 1C 80 8B AF B9 77 BB) AboveNet Communications - AboveSecure Network Security Engineer, Vienna VA "A mind is like a parachute, it works best when open." -- Unknown
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