* Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> [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 why applications, formats and protocols need to > change, since many of them use 32 bits today.
anything clean just uses time_t and is thus fixed by recompiling. now, reality check, there is way too much crap out there that makes dumb assumptions. but "many of them use 32 bits today" makes it sound like a) that was common and b) right. it isn't. certainly not b). time will tell us (oh the irony) about a). -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
