6 Aug
2012
6 Aug
'12
10:46 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:10 AM, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
Does it store the time in the fraction of a D-type floating point variable? ;-)
But most
Unixes now use a 64 bit representation, I believe.
Even those on VAX :)
$ date -r `echo '2^55'|bc`
Sun Jun 13 07:26:08 BST 1141709097
$ uname -srm
NetBSD 6.99.7 vax
Though...
$ date -r `echo '2^56'|bc`
date: localtime 72057594037927936 failed: Value too large to be stored
in data type
Tsk, now there is an arbitrary and completely irrelevant limit :)