From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use time_t for timestamps returned by approxidate() instead of unsigned Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:27:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1232665622-5110-1-git-send-email-tim.henigan@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: Tim Henigan X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 24 07:28:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQc0L-0000XR-3N for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:28:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750830AbZAXG1J (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:27:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750812AbZAXG1G (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:27:06 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54703 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750808AbZAXG1G (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:27:06 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2009 06:27:02 -0000 Received: from pD9EB3F9A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO noname) [217.235.63.154] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2009 07:27:02 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19ZRCxxjZRZ9Mp0QMZFMl8qRZFiM9fBvrs3hO1opC DjMq6/D5zI1e/i X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <1232665622-5110-1-git-send-email-tim.henigan@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Tim Henigan wrote: > Use time_t for timestamps returned by approxidate() instead of unsigned > long. All references to approxidate were checked as well as references > to OPT_DATE. Hmm. I vaguely remember Linus mentioning recently that unsigned long is the appropriate data type for the Unix Epoch... Ciao, Dscho