Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Chris Nandor]

At 11:05 +0100 2000.08.23, Alan Burlison wrote:
>Be aware that perl5 already will support a 64-bit time_t if it is
>compiled as a 64 bit application.  This is because time_t is defined as
>long, and on LP64 platforms (the majority of 64 bit platforms are I
>think), long becomes 64 bit when apps are compiled to be 64 bit:

Interesting.  I still think we should have our own real 64-bit time,
though, since not all platforms will be 64 bit (although by 2020 they may
be), and perhaps not all of them will be LP64 (and I confess to not know
what that stands for :).

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