Future of 32 bit time_t?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> What happens for read/write times in disk metadata?  Are they just assuming 
> it's unsigned so it will last another 68 years?

No.  There's nothing special about disk-metadata timestamps on any Unix I've
ever seen; they're just the local time_t type, whatever that is.

Checking...oh, that's interesting. Since 2.6, Linux puts a struct timespec
there, with some backward-compatibility macros. Your creation/mod/stat
bits can have nanosecond resolution; who knew?
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