Re: [RFC 06/32] isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since
> 1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed
> char type by default, this results in an invalid date for
> anything beyond 2027.
>
> This adds a cast to 'u8' for the year number, which should extend
> the shelf life of the file system until 2155.

Oops, the CD archive of my scanned Napoleon manuscripts no longer has the
right file date? ;-)

Are there any practical uses of representating dates between 1772 and 1900
on CD/DVD?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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