Re: uptime 2 years!

Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

andrew clarke wrote:

Is FreeBSD 7.1 2038-proof? ;-)


As far as I know the amd64 version is (anyone care to verify/correct?)

All 64-bit platforms have 64-bit time_t, so that covers most of the
possible problems. Even on 32-bit platforms, the major filesystems
use 64-bit times, so the data is good to go on 64-bit systems.

And in theory it should be possible to change time_t to unsigned, and
get another two-thirds of a century out of it...

--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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