Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64 bits Message-ID: Date: 10 Aug 90 14:16:45 GMT References: <5539@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <13285@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <30728@super.ORG> <13667@cbmvax.commodore.com> <40644@mips.mips.COM> <1990Aug8.042631.7093@nlm.nih.gov> <1990Aug8.215735.4197@zoo.toronto.edu> <46173@ism780c.isc.com> <2418@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 11 In-reply-to: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 10 Aug 90 13:03:28 GMT Regarding 64 bit ints, and such -- another thing that will soon need to be 64 bits on UNIX systems, is the value time_t returns. This is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch (Jan 1, 1970), and with 32 bit signed ints, it runs out on Monday January 18 at 22:14:07 in the year 2038. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?