Re: 1/1/1970

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From: Brent Callaghan (brent@caribe-86)
Date: 03/18/97-11:37:12 AM Z 

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:37:12 -0800
From: brent@caribe-86 (Brent Callaghan)
Message-Id: <199703181737.JAA09984@terra.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: 1/1/1970


> If 2106 is too soon, then why not change the format from two 32 bit values
> to a single 64 unsigned value.  With a 1970 base, this then ranges out to
> around 2554.

Interesting idea, though doesn't this burden OS's or filesystems
that do not support time resolutions below 1 second ?  Currently
they can just plug in the seconds value and set the nanoseconds
to zero.  If the entire value is represented as 64 bit nanoseconds
then they'll required to do some non-trivial 64 bit arithmetic.

	Brent

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