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Article #754Re: Year 2000 problem!
From: Curt Sampson
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <D19960621T40093X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca>, Brian Hampson <brian@asl-labs.bc.ca> wrote: >Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: > >: There's not much to `getting around it'; UNIX itself does most of >: its date work in type time_t, so just increasing it from 32 to 64 >: bits will do the trick quite nicely for some time to come. > >True, although on our UNIX system there is a > >#define time_t int > >or some such...they'll have to do something about that <grin>... Exactly. Change it to #define time_t long long (or more likely a typedef) and you've fixed your problem. Or just recompile on a DEC Alpha and the problem goes away all by itself. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114424,eb9ce83307037cc X-Google-Attributes: gid114424,public From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Subject: Re: Year 2000 problem! Date: 1996/06/22 Message-ID: <4qh70t$8ru@cynic.portal.ca> X-Deja-AN: 161573282 references: <4q7ref$hj1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <D19960619T32990X4433@grizzly.asl- <4qel9g$o7f@cynic.portal.ca> <D19960621T40093X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca> organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. newsgroups: bc.unix