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Re: 64 bit time_t, when?
- To: Gianni Mariani <gianni_ at uluru dot mariani dot ws>
- Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t, when?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:06:58 +0100 (BST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Gianni Mariani wrote:
> You could probably start by proposing system functions for
> extended time_t functions ;like for exmaple:
>
> time64_t time64(time64_t *)
There is currently a PASC group discussing time_t replacement, and
improved time functions is a topic under consideration for a work item for
the next C standard revision. If anything happens it will probably not be
time64 (e.g., subsecond resolution is required, ideally a clear solution
for leap second handling, etc.).
Contact a.josey@opengroup.org to join the pasc-time-study list - though
the discussion there has essentially finished.
Mail c-time-subscribe@list.cr.yp.to to join the c-time list for discussion
of <time.h> improvements - so far fairly inactive.
See the tz list archives at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz for
past discussion of these issues.
See also Markus Kuhn's proposal http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/ and
its links to other proposals in this area.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk