From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Date madness
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:12:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712131912.vBDJCb3a120561@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
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> Flipping it to unsigned int was the quickest way out to kick the can until Sun Feb 6 06:28:15 2106. If you have source it’s incredibly trivial to change, and nothing changes size wise.
Easy, but perhaps unwise. The sign bit is a potential escape hatch for
times, just as it is for characters in UTF-8.
Doug
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2017-12-13 19:12 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2017-12-14 3:07 ` Random832
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2017-12-16 10:50 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-16 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-16 17:11 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-13 22:16 Norman Wilson
2017-12-14 0:24 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-17 16:20 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-17 20:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 20:22 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 17:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-13 20:46 ` arnold
2017-12-15 16:41 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-15 17:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16 3:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 3:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-17 1:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:13 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 16:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:50 ` arnold
2017-12-13 16:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:23 ` arnold
2017-12-13 15:56 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 15:07 ` Random832
2017-12-13 17:00 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 18:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-13 15:39 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-12-14 0:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 14:09 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 16:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 16:33 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 17:54 ` Random832
2017-12-17 22:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-17 22:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-16 18:12 ` Wolfgang Helbig
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