Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: 64 bits Message-ID: <1990Aug12.010928.5480@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology 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> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 90 01:09:28 GMT In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >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. Note that neither ANSI C nor 1003.1 promises that time_t is signed... although changing that would itself be a bit disruptive. -- It is not possible to both understand | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry