Hi Simon, > What do people think about to offer a new set of modules that use > 64-bit integers for time representation? > ... > With this module, packages that need support for years >2038 can use > do this now, instead of waiting for time_t to be made larger in the > compiler/OS they use.
I think this is not urgent. A machine's lifetime usually is less than 15 years. So it will become urgent in 2022. Until then, there is a high probability that all OSes use a 64-bit time_t already. Bruno
