Re: Unix time WAS: Max Filesize in 2ext FS?

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw wittsend com> writes:

> 	Are you considering the u_time value to be a signed quantity or
> an unsigned quantity.  I was always under the impression that the 2038
> rollover date was for systems (old) that considered the time long to be a
> signed quantity.  

Actually, nearly every system that uses seconds since 1970 also makes
it signed, so it can represent times before 1970.  

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