Time (was: Character set wars (was: In defense of Google))

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Jan 31 17:09:01 EST 2006


On 1/31/06, Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:

> What will be interesting to see, and most of us will be around when it
> happens, is the time the Unix clocks run to an end in 2038. I would like
> to
> think by then all timers will be 64-bit (or similar), but you'll never
> know
> for sure.
>

Windows uses the same clock.  Macintosh used to use a different one, but
MacOSX is partly FreeBSD based and may have switched.

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measures.
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