June 18, 2004
3:35 p.m.
<<On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:54:39 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> said:
I just checked Usenet, and FreeBSD started talking about the change to 64-bit time_t in 2001 and decided to do it one architecture at a time (sparc64 made the transition earlier this year). They're even making noises about using 64-bit time_t for x86, though that sounds a bit extreme.
I expect to see this in all tier-1 architectures in FreeBSD 6. All 64-bit architectures except Alpha, which is moribund, have it now. -GAWollman