In <4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck >says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) >and *monumentally shortsighted* >(did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?).
What makes you say this is UNIX time? The UNIX standard provides many ways of displaying a time, and AFAIK, doesn't really prefer any particular string format. For me, UNIX time is nanoseconds from Epoch. The time_t and clock_t types are allowed to be signed and any reasonable size. The timespec structure specifically records nanosecond and interprets a time_t as seconds. The clock_t type was "always" in microseconds in SUSv2, but even then there was warning that it might change. Traditionally, UNIX-like systems have used a 32-bit signed time_t, but I'm pretty sure all the *BSDs (including Mac OS X) and the Linux kernel have moved beyond that. I'm not sure about AIX and Solaris. I'm pretty sure there won't be anymore HP-UX. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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