Future of 32 bit time_t?
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Mar 14 00:03:40 UTC 2017
I have the leap second code mostly cleaned up. It builds but the tests still
get several errors. There is no reference to ntpcal_xxx.
The general idea is that the file format uses NTP epoch, but as soon as dates
are read in, they are converted to time_t. All processing is done using
time_t.
That works fine now, but will break in 2038.
Is the world going to shift to 64 bit time_t soon enough? Or should I
convert everything to time64_t now while the code is somewhat fresh in my
mind. Actually, I think I would debug the non64 case first, then update to
time64_t.
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