[haiku-development] Re: Year 2038 problem

  • From: "Earl Pottinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "earl_colby_pottinger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:35:37 -0700

Are you sure there is a problem, while I have not looked at the clock time code 
system_time() returns a 64 bit value, I assumed (you what that means) that the 
other timing values in Haiku-OS are also 64 bits in size.



On Sunday, September 7, 2014 3:52 PM, Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
 


2014-09-07 21:07 GMT+02:00 Ralf Schülke <ralf.schuelke@xxxxxxxxx>:

>
> I think Haiku have this problem too:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
>
> What can a good way to fix this and where all need this?

We have to switch x86_64 to a 64-bit time_t for sure, this just needs
to be done.

Bye,
Jérôme

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