Re: [bug-gnulib] time64: 64-bit variants of gmtime, mktime, localtime etc?

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Clearly you don't write financial applications dealing with 30-year
>> bonds.  :-)
>
> So you want that 'time64_t' type to be useful specifically for financial
> applications?

I was kidding!  (But I'm afraid others are not: I have heard stories
of people who converted to 64-bit just for this reason.  Obviously
their view of the world was oversimplified...)

The main reason I want 64-bit time_t is so that my apps can stat any
file without getting EOVERFLOW.  gnulib can't easily work around that
problem on 32-bit platforms, though.  (I can think of a way to do it,
but it'd be pretty horrible....)