Future of 32 bit time_t?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Mar 14 02:16:03 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Is the world going to shift to 64 bit time_t soon enough?

I think so.  I'd worry about this more if I thought we were going to be running
on a lot of legacy embedded systems in the *near* future, but by 21 years from
now I seriously doubt a significant fraction of our potential targets will be
32-bit.
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