Re: Support for tv_sec=-1 (one second before the epoch) timestamps?

[<Paul.Koning%dell.com@localhost>]

> On Dec 14, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:37:06AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> In real life it's often needed to store time_t pointing before the UNIX
>> epoch.
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> Again, I quite disagree and believe that you are confusing two different
> things. It makes perfect sense in certain applications to store time as
> relative to the UNIX epoch. But that's not the same as time_t which is a
> specific type for a *system* interface. I'm strongly question the
> sensibility of trying to put dates before 1970 in the context of time_t.
> 
> Joerg

I'm not sure if people care about this example, but here's one: if you want to archive old files with their original timestamps, and those files predate the epoch.

	paul