matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:

actually, no NetBSD platform uses a 64 bit time_t on any of the several 64 bit machines it runs on.

Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for correcting me. I was told in 1995 that NetBSD on Alpha used a 64-bit time_t, and never bothered to check (nor has anyone else corrected me despite my reporting this on Usenet for almost a decade, e.g., see <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=51ke97%2452d%40deck.twinsun.com>). 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. So I should have written "FreeBSD on some architectures" rather than "the BSDs".