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Re: unix time hits the bigtime
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
>
> > problems (my favourite Email program, PINE, just came out with a Y2K fix
> > this week).
>
> What did (will) the bug do. I also use PINE.
It has problem with the sorting algorithm. It was fixed in version 3.96
(If you want to upgrade take 4.00 which is out from this week (8.7.98)
take a look at http://www.washington.edu/pine/)
>
> 2. Augment the time_t type in a compatible way to be 64 bits long. This is
> probably the long-term solution. Old apps will still read the new time_t
> 'right' because of the 'auto' casting capability of C in an expression.
This is the solution that will be implemented (I think that new kernels
should support this, but I'm not sure (It was said they would soon , I
just don't know what soon mean...)).
> Peter
Liran.
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