The type of time_t (was: struct tm -> time_t converter wanted)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9816 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>There's nothing to prevent time_t from being typedef'd to unsigned long int,
>which would double the range...

Unfortunately, it would probably break a significant number of programs that
think time_t is signed.  Those programs are arguably broken already, but some
degree of pragmatism is necessary in such matters.
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