Subj : Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
To   : All
From : Richard Bos
Date : Sun Jan 01 2017 04:01 am

From: raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos)
Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
 
Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote:
 
> On 12/30/2016 04:37 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> > The time is stored in a time_t value returned by the time()
> > function.  The time_t type is required to be a real type (integer
> > or floating-point, not complex) capable of representing times.
> > (On many systems it's a signed integer representing seconds since
> > 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.)
> 
> Used to be 32-bit, why I thought Y2K was going to be much less of a 
> problem than Y2.038K (Jan 17 2038 IIRC).
 
That's U*x, not C. Despite what some anarcho-politically motivated
sources may tell you, they're not the same, and except for a very few
months in their very beginnings, never have been.
 
Richard

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