[26316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Thu Dec 23 14:30:23 1999
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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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[ On Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 23:58:21 (-0500), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Silly season
>
> it would be better, imho, to go to a 64 bit signed time_t, but that
> would be a major flag day.
"would be"!?!?! :-)
No, it *WILL* be an important day, but it will happen on a per-system
basis (and perhaps per-protocol basis if indeed there are any network
protocols carrying time_t or similar values).
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