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To: flatsville who wrote (8977)10/22/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Howard Clark  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
Something I've always wondered is:

Why didn't the designers of Unix make the time an UNSIGNED 32-bit integer instead of a signed one. What is the meaning of negative time values? Making it unsigned would extend the usefulness of these systems to 2**32 seconds or 136 years.

Surely nobody will be using Unix in 2106?