From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:12:37 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Date madness
Message-ID: <201712131912.vBDJCb3a120561@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

>  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