On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:27 PM Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: ...
> Back to tar files: there is place for 11 octal digits, that is > only twice the time you can count with 32 bits, in years: > > 2^33/(60*60*24*365.25*2)=136.09930083403047126524 > > Also not too much. Is it not a better solution to begin a new epoch > every 68.05 years? We can do a big celebration at the beginning of > each new epoch. > The pax file format (which is supported by many 'tar' binaries) supports expressing the time as a decimal string with sub-integer part, bounded only by the block size, solving both the field size limit problem and the lack of subsecond resolution. Philip Guenther
