Hi Peter, Peter J. Philipp wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:47:59PM +0200:
> When time_t was made, I think, positive integers meant time forwards, and > negative integers meant time backwards from epoch so that people born in > 1938 for example could be processed. https://man.openbsd.org/time.3#HISTORY A time() system call first appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX and used to return time in sixtieths of a second in 32 bits, which was to guarantee a crisis every 2.26 years. Since Version 6 AT&T UNIX, time() scale was changed to seconds, extending the pre-crisis stagnation period up to a total of 68 years. Yours, Ingo
