Johannes Schindelin writes:
> This quick fix, however, tests for *long* to be 64-bit or not. What we
> need, though, is a test that says whether *whatever data type we use for
> timestamps* is 64-bit or not.
>
> The same quick fix was used to handle the similar problem where Git's
> source code u
Git's source code refers to timestamps as unsigned longs. On 32-bit
platforms, as well as on Windows, unsigned long is not large enough to
capture dates that are "absurdly far in the future".
It is perfectly valid by the C standard, of course, for the `long` data
type to refer to 32-bit integers.
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