Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-23 Thread Bruce Drake
On 21/10/2011 12:33 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Janne Johansson [2011-10-20 15:11]: >> What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say "use 64 >> bits for time" and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or >> the over-the-wire formats don't support 64 bits for s

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread bofh
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Nick Bender wrote: > NTP (from wikipedia): > >Implementations should disambiguate NTP time using a knowledge >of the approximate time from other sources. Since NTP only works >with the differences between timestamps and never their absolute >values,

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Janne Johansson [2011-10-20 15:11]: >> What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say "use 64 >> bits for time" and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or >> the over-the-wire formats don't support 64

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread Henning Brauer
* Janne Johansson [2011-10-20 15:11]: > What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say "use 64 > bits for time" and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or > the over-the-wire formats don't support 64 bits for specifying time, you'd > be screwed anyway. That's w

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread Janne Johansson
2011/10/19 Michael T. Davis > >> I found mention of a possible move to 64 bit time_t back in 2005 and 3.9 > >> was mentioned, but I see it hasn't happened. Is there a plan, like for > >> instance making all platforms, even 32 bit 64 bit time_t, like I think > >> NetBSD have tried/trying to do? >

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-19 Thread Michael T. Davis
At 09:05:01.75 on 19-OCT-2011 in message , Janne Johansson wrote: >2011/10/19 Bruce Drake > >> I found mention of a possible move to 64 bit time_t back in 2005 and 3.9 >> was mentioned, but I see it hasn't happened. Is there a plan, like for >> instance making all platforms, even 32 bit 64 bit t

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-19 Thread Janne Johansson
2011/10/19 Bruce Drake > I found mention of a possible move to 64 bit time_t back in 2005 and 3.9 > was mentioned, but I see it hasn't happened. Is there a plan, like for > instance making all platforms, even 32 bit 64 bit time_t, like I think > NetBSD have tried/trying to do? > Can some one giv

Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Drake
Hi I found mention of a possible move to 64 bit time_t back in 2005 and 3.9 was mentioned, but I see it hasn't happened. Is there a plan, like for instance making all platforms, even 32 bit 64 bit time_t, like I think NetBSD have tried/trying to do? Can some one give a brief list of what needs to