[PATCH] Change time_t to 64-bit by default

Freddie Chopin freddie_chopin@op.pl
Thu Sep 7 18:47:00 GMT 2017


On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 18:03 +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 2147483647 days are roughly 5879489 years. This should be enough for
> most applications.

Unless you don't use gmtime_r() for calculating current time, but for
experimenting with future dates. Such change does no harm in any case,
while expanding possible range of function inputs.

So why not?

Regards,
FCh



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