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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: 64-bit time_t type in DJ 2.05?
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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2022 13:09:09 -0400
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"Frank Sapone (fhsapone AT windstream DOT net) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]"
<djgpp AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> Does DJGPP support some sort of 64-bit time_t type?

No.

We actually considered this back when we were writing the 2.0 C library,
and decided that (1) it would break too many programs (then), and (2) if
anyone was still using MS-DOS in 2038, they could fix it ;-)

We also considered an unsigned time_t, which moves the problem to 2164,
but that would have broken other programs.

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