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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: 64-bit time on 32-bit Windows NT (was: Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:31:58 +0100
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On 2024-10-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 00:56 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
>
>> In article <vdfdcj$2dsh2$7@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
>> D'Oliveiro) wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 00:25 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In article <vdf71h$2cn51$17@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
>>>> D'Oliveiro) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not being ignored. The Linux kernel added the option to build a
>>>>> 32-bit kernel with time_t having 64 bits
>>>> 
>>>> The same has happened for Windows and Apple's operating systems.
>>>> A lot of the work for 2038 is already done.
>>> 
>>> They're not supporting 32-bit code any more. Linux is.
>> 
>> Apple only run 64-bit code on recent OSes, yes, but Windows 11 still
>> runs 32-bit applications, even though the OS is only available in 64-bit
>> form.
>
> But those 32-bit Windows apps are not being rebuilt for 64-bit time_t. The 
> option isn’t there.

Is Windows really affected in the same way?

According to the last bullet item in [1], WINAPI does not rely on time_t
*and* the parts that do have it have built with 64-bit time_t by default
for a while now?

(What does this mean for people using third-party compilers? Just needs
to be enabled there too?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1244809614#Implemented_solutions

(Either way, trusting this, it seems the rebuild option has been there
for almost two decades now?)

-- 
Nuno Silva