Future of 32 bit time_t?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Mar 14 11:24:29 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> It will take me a day or two to clean things up and test some more.

Looking forward to the patch.

> We need to figure out how to test leap seconds.
> 
> In particular, we need to test the smearing stuff.  It's currently using cos. 
>  I think google and friends switched to simple linear.  We should try to find 
> out if they have converged on the time-spam to smear over.

Hm.  I don't know where to go to find that out.
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