On 13 Jul 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

# 
# Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
# > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Dave Sainty wrote:
# > 
# > # ...check out those modification times!
# > # Setuid additions:
# > # prwsr-xr-x 18164 2633305079 670483187 5545397811823284715 \
# > #	Sep 10 14:41:52 1914 /vol/tequila/userC/NetBSD-sup/pkgsrc/x11/wmthemes
# >                         ^^^^
# > # Dave
# > # 
# > 
# > ...you mean our time_t is still interpreted as a signed value?  That's not
# > very Y1.990K compliant :-)
# > 
# > [FWIW: Solaris 7 interprets time_t as unsigned, which extends years to
# >  somewhere in 2100 or so...]
# 
# I can't believe this.

My fault.  Solaris' strftime() and family (ctime()...) seem to
interpret it as unsigned; of course one will need to set one's clock
BACKward from time to time (hopefully rarely).

That was what I meant.  Sorry for the confuzzlement.

				--*greywolf;
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