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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by oblio on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:18AM (#16333189)
Furthermore, won't Unix time, the most common format, blow up in 2038?
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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by uiri on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:23AM (#16333244)
It will overflow a 32 bit integer around that time. If you are using a 64 bit representation, then you'll be fine.
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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by ksrm on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:45PM (#16334483)
32 bit signed integer. Unsigned will be fine for a good while yet.
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