Kind of puzzled about timestamps

[Jerry Feldman]

128 bits 😀

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 6:21 PM Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

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> On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> >       What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a
> > computer where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then?
>
> Hehehehe.
>
> Tovalds was asked about the 2038 problem would be a problem. From
> memory, he said, "It's nothing more difficult than changing the
> counter from 32 bits to 64 bits, and a recompile. I hope people are
> using something better than Linux by then."
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