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Re: Dates

  • Subject: Re: Dates
  • From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:35:39 -0700
On Thursday, September 6, 2001, at 10:42 AM, Peter Ammon wrote:

BSD does indeed use a signed long type to represent dates, which means it will overflow in 2038 or so. But Core Foundation uses a double type, and I'd expect that NSDate works the same way. This means that Core Foundation can represent something like 10^300 seconds, so overflow simply isn't an issue.

Well, unless you're doing cosmology work that needs to represent dates a *long* time in the future..

-jcr

"Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious... it is
corrupt, sinister and dangerous." - Mr. Justice Latey, London 1984

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