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

[Topher]

On 07/27/2012 09:12 AM, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

Yay!  May their computers turn white in the sun!  As long as no embedded
system that affects me is harmed in any way.