Re: [bug-gnulib] time64: 64-bit variants of gmtime, mktime, localtime etc?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Simon,

> What do people think about to offer a new set of modules that use
> 64-bit integers for time representation?
> ...
> With this module, packages that need support for years >2038 can use
> do this now, instead of waiting for time_t to be made larger in the
> compiler/OS they use.

I think this is not urgent. A machine's lifetime usually is less than 15
years. So it will become urgent in 2022. Until then, there is a high
probability that all OSes use a 64-bit time_t already.

Bruno