I tend to agree with Chris. None of the proposals for changing the type of "time_t" seem to me to stand a chance, given all the old UNIX software out there that has an incompatible notion of what a "time_t" is. Changing "time_t" to something other than an integral type that holds the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT would break lots of programs - programs written to obey the rules, not just programs that "cheat" in some way.