> How many of the people involved in this discussion have designed
> and built something looking closely to a PC arhitecture ?

But it's not about architecture, it's about the C variable time_t, and
C compilations are and will be in micros for many years to come. I
personally have some original micros still in service after almost 20
years, and there's no reason why they won't go for another 20. They
don't have C in them, but ones in production do. Micros now are
quite capable of performing tasks that would have once required a
PC. As you say, you don't expect a PC to have a long lifetime but
micros are completely different

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