Future of 32 bit time_t?

Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de
Tue Mar 14 20:29:54 UTC 2017


Hal Murray writes:
> 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.

As far as NTP is concerned, I think a lot of that depends on what glibc
is doing, which is detailed here:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign

Some systems, iuncluding Windows default to a 64bit time_t already.


Regards,
Achim.
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