I know this thread is long and twisting, but the point made by this
person is so often overlooked I though a reimphasis by another person
who was around when we (programmers) first started thinking about
Y2K as a bug...
>
> The fix for the epoch problem is to have time64() or similar.
>
Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 16:52:18, Antoine.Beaupre (Antoine Beaupre (LMC)) wrote about
"Re: time_t definition is worng":
> Why not make leave it a long on alpha (and IA64) and make it a 'long
> long' on IA32 so that we get rid of the Y38 bug right now? ;)
It will brea
Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 16:18:08, david (David Wolfskill) wrote about "Re: time_t
definition is worng":
> >Historically people compared time stamps by subtracting one from
> >another.
> Which is a practice that the difftime() function was invented to
> re
Hello,
From: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:16:43 -0700
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:05:18AM +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote:
> > > Since on IA-32 int == lo
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:05:18AM +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote:
> Hello,
>
> From: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng
> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:52:37 -0700
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> &
Hello,
From: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:52:37 -0700
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Since on IA-32 int == long, the only issue is what ones uses in printf()
> and scanf(). I have not
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:23:05AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> Yes, I know all that. The problem isn't that you couldn't have an
> unsigned time_t, the problem is that there are vast amounts of software
> already out there that would "break mysteriously" if you did. So,
> like th
:On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:39:33PM +0300, Amir Shalem wrote:
:> it was always long int,
:> whenever you want to print time_t
:> in programs it was always
:> printf("%ld", (time_t)time);
:
:That cast is wrong; if you want to print a long, cast it to long.
:time_t is (was) only a long on the i386;
