Re: time64: 64-bit variants of gmtime, mktime, localtime etc?

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > If, on the other hand, the time_t type is larger than the one used in the
> > filesystem, you can get EOVERFLOW during utime().
> 
> Sure, but stat() is much, much more popular than utime().  It's used
> universally, by lots of standard applications and (worse) libraries we
> have no control over; in contrast, utime() is used only by a few apps
> like touch, cp -p, and tar, where we do have direct control.  I'd much
> rather have the utime() problem than the stat() proble.

OK, point taken. You've convinced me.

Bruno