Re: 64bit time_t

Chad Giffin <typosity at hotmail dot com> wrote:

> Make time_t 64 bits wide.  Make the most significant bit (bit 63) a 
> sign bit.  Make the next 50 significant bits store the number of 
> seconds elapsed since January 1st 2000 GMT.  The last 13 bits be of 
> fractions of a second.
>
> What do you think?

Write up an Internet-Draft and it won't be off-topic any more.  Just be 
sure to check for prior art first, because you're likely not the first 
person to try to solve this problem.

I would argue that if the data type has a 35 million year span, then 
setting the baseline at 2000-01-01 seems arbitrary.

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