A bit OT, but: On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:01 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > What time bug? There's nothing[1] in the Unix specifications that > requires a 32-bit clock. AFAIK the support for a 64-bit clock should > be transparent.
There is a lucid discussion of the issue on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Whether a "Unix issue" or not, expanding time_t beyond the commonly implemented (and signed!) 32 bits breaks binary compatibility and file format. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html