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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: struct tm -> time_t converter wanted
Keywords: C library, time
Message-ID: <8716@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Oct 88 18:33:34 GMT
References: <442@grand.UUCP> <8700@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6964@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6964@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>On many machines, time_t seems to be a long integer number of seconds
>since the beginning of 1970.  Which this (at the moment) seems handy,
>the evil that programmers write lives long after them.
>If any of the aforementioned evil lasts until 2038, we've got fun.

The epoch could be moved.  time_t is for internal program use, not
necessarily external archive time-stamping.

Some of us believe that well before 2038 the 64-bit integer will be in
wide use.