According to pdrolet @
galea .
com:
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>unsigned 32 bit number would provide EPOCH+136 years, (year 2106)
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>It think Unix time() can still be reliable for a while...
>
You are not quite correct there - currently the type returned by the
unix time is a SIGNED integer. To make it anything else will mean a
rebuild of all sorts of things and will probably break some programs
that have made bad assumptions about what time_t really is.
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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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