>> we definitely need date/time pmc(s?) not only to have a common epoch >> across platforms, but to deal with 2038. in particular, we should >> leverage schwern's work on perl to address the 2038 bug. >> ~jerry > > We definitely haven't already fixed this. Here's an easy test using > libfaketime: > > $ cat time.pir > .sub main :main > .local int time_int > time time_int > say time_int > .end > $ ./parrot time.pir > 1222213121 > $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/src/libfaketime-0.8/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME="+40y" > ./parrot time.pir > -1811314167
We can't make this example work. If you use an INTVAL, and the INTVAL can be signed 32 bits, there is no way to have a more than 31 bits unsigned stored on it as such. -- Salu2
