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Re: CGI question
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 03:57:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
Matthew Miller wrote:
The unix epoch rollover is gonna be another one....

at least at the unix epoch, most of the code won't have to be changed -
the assumption here is that we won't be using 32-bit boxes anymore, so a
long int will be a lot longer :)

In core, yah, but wot about in packed data structs on tapes?

--Todd



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  Re: CGI question
 
(...) at least at the unix epoch, most of the code won't have to be changed - the assumption here is that we won't be using 32-bit boxes anymore, so a long int will be a lot longer :) :) Dan (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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