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At 11:05 +0100 2000.08.23, Alan Burlison wrote: >Be aware that perl5 already will support a 64-bit time_t if it is >compiled as a 64 bit application. This is because time_t is defined as >long, and on LP64 platforms (the majority of 64 bit platforms are I >think), long becomes 64 bit when apps are compiled to be 64 bit: Interesting. I still think we should have our own real 64-bit time, though, since not all platforms will be 64 bit (although by 2020 they may be), and perhaps not all of them will be LP64 (and I confess to not know what that stands for :). -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next