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. --Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14http://www.ewellic.orghttp://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.htmlhttp://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________IETF mailing listIETF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf