Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Drake
Hi I found mention of a possible move to 64 bit time_t back in 2005 and 3.9 was mentioned, but I see it hasn't happened. Is there a plan, like for instance making all platforms, even 32 bit 64 bit time_t, like I think NetBSD have tried/trying to do? Can some one give a brief list of what needs to

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-23 Thread Bruce Drake
On 21/10/2011 12:33 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Janne Johansson [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 s