Re: ls default time style

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Markus Kuhn) writes:

|> Andreas Schwab wrote on 2001-12-11 14:21 UTC:
|> > address@hidden (Markus Kuhn) writes:
|> > 
|> > |> Could the date field to occupy 14 characters? In that case, I would
|> > |> advocate the format "YY-MM-DD HH:MM" to be used everywhere. In practice,
|> > |> POSIX implementations can't represent dates outside 1970-2038
|> > 
|> > What about 64 bit time_t?
|> 
|> I still have to actually see that on a POSIX system. Even the DEC Tru64
|> operating system has 32-bit time_t, as do NFS and many other file
|> systems, formats and protocols.

Both Linux/Alpha and Linux/ia64 use 64-bit time_t.  Pluggin in new
filesystems that support this is easy.  OK, network protocols will be
harder to fix.

Andreas.

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