Chad Giffin <typosity at hotmail dot com> wrote:
Make time_t 64 bits wide. Make the most significant bit (bit 63) a
sign bit. Make the next 50 significant bits store the number of
seconds elapsed since January 1st 2000 GMT. The last 13 bits be of
fractions of a second.
What do you think?
Write up an Internet-Draft and it won't be off-topic any more. Just be
sure to check for prior art first, because you're likely not the first
person to try to solve this problem.
I would argue that if the data type has a 35 million year span, then
setting the baseline at 2000-01-01 seems arbitrary.
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