[GRLUG] 32bit vs. 64bit [Was: Random questions]

Tim Schmidt timschmidt at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 09:12:08 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>> Even on 32bit Linux, *nix time has been a 64bit number for many years.
>
> Rats, there goes my feeling up superiority.

I may have spoken too soon.  Some googling reveals that the discussion
I remembered as resulting in the change of casting of time_t, in fact,
did not.

So it looks like 32bit systems may still suffer from the 2038 problem.
 I stopped short of digging through the source to confirm.

--tim


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