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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gnulib] time64: 64-bit variants of gmtime, mktime, localtime etc? |
Date: | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:37:27 -0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> Clearly you don't write financial applications dealing with 30-year >> bonds. :-) > > So you want that 'time64_t' type to be useful specifically for financial > applications? I was kidding! (But I'm afraid others are not: I have heard stories of people who converted to 64-bit just for this reason. Obviously their view of the world was oversimplified...) The main reason I want 64-bit time_t is so that my apps can stat any file without getting EOVERFLOW. gnulib can't easily work around that problem on 32-bit platforms, though. (I can think of a way to do it, but it'd be pretty horrible....)
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