Re: ls default time style

[Andreas Schwab]

Markus Kuhn <address@hidden> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab wrote on 2001-12-11 14:50 UTC:
|> > 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.
|> 
|> In practice, I fear that you will just get in a 64-bit integer word a
|> 32-bit timestamp passed in the least significant half. Does all/most/any
|> software running under Linux/Alpha and Linux/ia64 that receives a 32-bit
|> timestamp and stores it in a 64-bit time_t do anything more
|> sophisticated than filling up the remaining 32-bit with the sign bit?
|> Does at least GNU software do that? Is there a recommended coding
|> practice for what to do exactly when converting 32-bit
|> seconds-since-the-epoch to 64-bit?

The kernel has all the business to cope with it.  Since there are no
filesystems with 64-bit time_t yet, I cannot check, but the kernel<->user
land interface is 64-bit clean.

Andreas.

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