On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <pine.sol.3.96.990818101005.14430b-100...@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>, > Bill Studenmund writes: > > >Whew! That's reasuring. I agree there are things which need fixing. It'd > >be nice if both NetBSD and FreeBSD could fix things in the same way. > > Well, >that< still remains to be seen...
:-) > >I doubt we need more than 64 bit times. 2^63 seconds works out to > >292,279,025,208 years, or 292 (american) billion years. Current theories > >put the age of the universe at I think 12 to 16 billion years. So 64-bit > >signed times in seconds will cover from before the big bang to way past > >any time we'll be caring about. :-) I was unclear. I was refering to the seconds side of things. Sub-second resolution would need other bits. Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
