From: Lance Kibblewhite (lance@eco.twg.com)
Date: 03/18/97-05:14:59 PM Z
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970318151458.0091cc60@vishnu.eco.twg.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:14:59 -0800 From: Lance Kibblewhite <lance@eco.twg.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. Well, maybe. The OS's that I am familiar with are either 64 bit natively, or are 32-bit, but have support for 64bit operations. Don't most Unix API's also include this if their compiler doesn't? -- Lance
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