64 bit time_t

[John Hein]

John Baldwin wrote at 13:21 -0400 on Sep 17, 2008:
 > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:38:38 am John Hein wrote:
 > > John Baldwin wrote at 10:40 -0400 on Sep 17, 2008:
 > >  > And with amd64/x86-64, it may prove to not really be necessary.
 > > 
 > > I'm not sure I understand the "may" part.  Aren't we already using 64
 > > bit time_t natively on amd64?  Or maybe you're talking about 32 bit
 > > compat on amd64.
 > 
 > Yes, we are, and as newer server-class machines (at least) are predominantly 
 > 64-bit, for at least the server-class market it would seem that boxes will 
 > probably move to an amd64 kernel with a 64-bit time_t w/o requiring lots of 
 > rototilling to support 64-bit time_t on i386.

Right.  I'm more concerned with planning now for y2038 on 32-bit
embedded boxes that may still be around in 30 years.  In this case, I
think it's easy enough for me to just change my local FreeBSD tree to
have time_t be 64 bit and recompile.

But that doesn't help those users desperately clinging to their
7.1-RELEASE i386 boxes 30 years from now ;)