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- From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: localtime
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 09:32:33 -0800
- Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
- Message-ID: <4f067h$1d8@shade.twinsun.com>
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- jrv@mbunix.mitre.org (Jim Van Zandt) writes:
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- >It should work until at least 2034 (2^31 seconds after 1/1/1970).
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- A bit later than that. Most current Unix hosts use signed 32-bit
- time_t values that stop working after 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC.
- (By then we should all have graduated to 64-bit time_t values.)
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