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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!toylet.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk Subject: Re: Y2K38 bug (January 19, 2038) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:48:45 +0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: <usng5u$3o4es$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> References: <b2321bbf-e9a1-40d5-9261-db53a98a8dadn@googlegroups.com> <o29c2k-0a9.ln1@ID-313840.user.individual.net> <874jdgwlhh.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:48:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: toylet.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e10f395b0563ffe3f32c382f0dc3e156"; logging-data="3936732"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19D48zAIxRR4oScYY0itXoN" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:e5K7Zu4Fle/E0sFa49t2KP5UuFo= In-Reply-To: <874jdgwlhh.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1548 On 9/3/2024 3:51 am, Keith Thompson wrote: > > I'm a little disappointed that POSIX doesn't require time_t to be > signed. 64 bits is enough to represent a range of about 584 billion > years. An unsigned time_t makes it impossible to represent times before > 1970. Could we roll our own signed time_t? :)