Re: [PATCH] Have xen dom0 still handle time of 1970

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 17/1/07 16:30, "Steven Rostedt" <srostedt@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Have a box with Xen running more than a day? (I currently don't), and if
>> you do, try the above date command. You'll see what I'm talking about.
>>
>> The example is bad, but I didn't have a machine to show that has been
>> running a Xen kernel for more than an hour or two.
> 
> Oh, I see. But it kind of feels silly to work around a synthetic correctness
> test. If we make wc_sec implicitly signed (which is pretty gross) then we
> lose 1 bit of magnitude which also isn't great -- I'd rather be able to
> represent years 2038 through 2106 than 1902 through 1970.

Isn't unsigned long 64 bits on 64 bit systems anyway?

That would give us a lot more time...

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