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From: "John P. Looney" <valen@tuatha.org>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] Seconds to date?
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:14:17PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> > gnu date is limited by time_t.  but i thought time_t expired in 2037?
> > this seems to show it expiring in 2038:
> 
> (2^31-1)/3600/24/365+1970
> 2038
> 
> course, on UltraSparc, x86-64, IA64, alpha, etc:
> 
> (2^63-1)/3600/24/365+1970
> 292471210647
> 
> so we should be safe enough.

 May I assume that x86-64 will be able to use a 64bit time_t too? 

Kate


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