Re: 64bit time_t

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Chad Giffin <typosity at hotmail dot com> wrote:
Make time_t 64 bits wide.  Make the most significant bit (bit 63) a > sign bit.  Make the next 50 significant bits store the number of > seconds elapsed since January 1st 2000 GMT.  The last 13 bits be of > fractions of a second.>> What do you think?
Write up an Internet-Draft and it won't be off-topic any more.  Just be sure to check for prior art first, because you're likely not the first person to try to solve this problem.
I would argue that if the data type has a 35 million year span, then setting the baseline at 2000-01-01 seems arbitrary.
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