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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by Gigachad on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:32PM (#34525708)
One major issue is it can't handle dates any further than 2038 which is getting uncomfortably close, especially when you have to handle future dates.
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:07PM (#34526064)
Windows doesn't use UNIX time. The SYSTEMTIME structure can go up to the year 30827. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinba....
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:55AM (#34528503)
64-bit time_t works perfectly fine on 32-bit systems. That is completely unrelated to machine word size.
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