Some senseless babbling from Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Ian Moote
on 11-29-99  11:07 about Clocked!...

[snip]

 IM> Is the 2079 a C thing?

 JDBP> No.  The limits of 32-bit implementations of the C language and the
 JDBP> C++ language are 2038-01-19 and 2106-02-07, respectively, depending
 JDBP> from whether the underlying type of `time_t' is signed or unsigned.

 JDBP> The limits of 64-bit implementations of the C language and the C++
 JDBP> language are somewhat higher.

This strikes me as something of an understatement.

A signed 64-bit integer would make the C timestamp function until the
universe is about 20 times older than it currently is, long after the sun
and earth are gone.

Using the same integer as a millisecond counter would last for over 292
million years.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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