problem with dates

[RJ45]

I think you are right
this is also happening to me with OpenBSD on sparc64

thanks

Rick


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> RJ45 wrote this message on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:39 -0700:
> > even if this si the current time:
> > 
> > Tue Mar 30 19:39:04 CEST 2004
> > 
> > anyone got this problem?
> > thanks
> 
> Looks like the code is broken in that it assumes that time_t is an int,
> and passes a pointer to a time_t to another function that casts it to
> an integer...  This would turn up this problem since time_t's are now
> 64bits, and int's are 32bits, and since sparc64 is a big endian platform,
> the first 32bits of a 64bit time_t are usually zero...
> 
> Tell the author of the program that his code is broken. 
> 
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