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From: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 64-bit time on 32-bit Windows NT
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:55:59 +0100
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:
> On 2024-10-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 00:56 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
>>> 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?

Yes, Windows has had 64-bit time_t on 32-bit platforms for many years, I
think since some time in the 2000s.

It did fail for dates in the far future (Y6K or so IIRC) but that
doesn’t need a new data type to fix (they may well have done so
already).

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