Re: [SLUG] New System

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 23:20:03 EDT


Spake Logan Tygart on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 07:34PM -0400:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 18:11, Bob Stia wrote:
>
> > Most important. Should I go 64 bit?
>
> I wouldn't worry about 64 bit until around 2036.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1997/11/msg00169.html
>

I hear the current plan is to change
time_t from signed int to unsigned int.
Or unsigned long long int (64bit).

Me, I'm more worried about the Y10K problem:
 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2550.html

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