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joezydeco
on May 21, 2012
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Start sending dates the right way (aka The ISO8601...
What do we do about date calculations that cross an epoch wrap?
Corun
on May 21, 2012
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Signed 64 bit seconds since epoch is enough.
joezydeco
on May 21, 2012
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Is the whole Internet on 64-bit time_t now? Will they all be by 2038? I'm guessing we won't know that answer until 2037...
sanxiyn
on May 21, 2012
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x32 ABI, which got merged in newly released Linux 3.4, defines time_t to be 64-bit. I am starting to feel hopeful that we will be better prepared.
joezydeco
on May 21, 2012
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That's cool for Linux, going forward. Now we just have to take care of all the old mainframes and legacy system that will never get their O/S updated...
nickzoic
on May 22, 2012
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We won't know until 1901 ...
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(-2**31) datetime.datetime(1901, 12, 13, 20, 45, 52)
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