Re: Old timestamps in the future?

[Gisle Vanem]

Edward Welbourne wrote:

> Indeed, on Unix, time_t is signed and modern GLibc / Linux functions
> using it are perfectly happy with values across the whole range of the
> type (which extends to well before the big bang).

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Yes, it's rather confusing
with such timestamps on Windows. E.g. in some 'tcpdump' tests
there are NTP timestamp from 1934 which 'strftime()' on Glibc
handles fine. But not on Windows.

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