Re: Y2.038K (slightly off topic)

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> writes:

> I think that a better idea would be to expand the number of bits
> used to represent the time.  It seems to me that time was a 64 bit
> signed integer, then most times of interest could be easily
> represented.  [...]  I would suggest that the ideal time for the
> transition would be during the switch to 64 bit processors.

Already done.  Linux on 64-bit machines already as a 64-bit time_t.

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