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


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: time64: 64-bit variants of gmtime, mktime, localtime etc?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:52:30 +0100
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think this is not urgent.
>
> Clearly you don't write financial applications dealing with 30-year
> bonds.  :-)

FWIW, my initial reason for thinking about this was X.509 certificate
validity (for GnuTLS).  There are several certificates issued to be
valid until 2038 today, and sooner or later someone will ask why they
can't generate one that is valid for, say, 50 years.

(Although having a certificate valid for 30 years seems quite
excessive to me.. there can be no guessing about cryptographic
advances in that time-frame.)

> Perhaps we can nudge this process forward a bit by designing an
> Autoconf macro that causes configure/make to default to 64-bit builds
> on platforms that can support either 32 or 64.

I'd like that.

/Simon




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