Hi,

according to 'man 2 time' the starting age for time_t is 1/1/1970 instead
of 80. Otherwise your statement is correct.

Regards,
Imre


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, bowman wrote:

> Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>
> > I will change date to 2039 in my laptop (at home) and make some tests
> > about extract date/time from DOS Time Functions and post the result
> > tonight.
>
>
> I don't know what happens to the extra seconds, but if you run 12/31/37
> through the gcc C library conversions to a time_t val, it gets close to
> 0x7fffffff. Conversely, a time_t == 0 converts to 1/1/80. Trying to
> convert 1/1/38 yields -1.
>
> If nothing else, software using the C library localtime(), mktime() etc
> will have trouble if time_t doesn't get kicked out to 64 bits. Not a
> personal concern of mine; if I live that long, software will be the
> least of my problems.
>
>
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