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Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/22/07 18:39
..oO(Brandon)
>By the way, integer timestamps are definitely not 32-bits.
The usual Unix timestamp is still a 32-bit signed integer.
>If they
>were, timestamps would have overflowed in less than two months.
Such an "integer timestamp" counts seconds, not milli seconds or
whatever. With a signed 32-bit integer you can count up to at least
2^31 seconds, which is enough for more than 68 years. With negative
timestamps the range is doubled.
Year 2038 problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Micha
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