Re: Year 2000 and Linux

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From: Casper H.S. Dik - Network Securi...
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00

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Wayne Schlitt <wayne@midwestcs.com> writes:

>time_t must be signed, or things like difftime wont work correctly,
>and gettimeofday returns -1 on an error.

Why?  Difftime doesn't return a time_t.  It returns a double.
gettimeofday doesn't return time.
time() doesn't even return -1.

Oops, mktime() returns -1.

>Trying to fix the problems with switching from signed to unsigned
>time_t isn't worth it.  Just switch to a 64-bit time_t instead.

Which might be a bit hard for on-disk formats and such.

Casper
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