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btilly on March 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: 2038: Only 21 years away

No, you make it time_t (unsigned) seconds since the epoch. That pushes the problem out 70+ years and doesn't break any binary APIs.

simias on March 21, 2017 [–]

Changing from signed to unsigned is very much an ABI break.

btilly on March 21, 2017 | [–]

Yes, it is an ABI break.

But if you took code that was compiled with each version, the binary data that they will produce/consume for dates between the epoch and 2038 is bit for bit identical.

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