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I’m assuming by EPOC you’re talking about Unix timestamps? There’s nothing wrong with them if they’re 64-bit.

As I understand it, it seems like it’s mostly software using 32-bit integers that will struggle.

So if you’re writing modern code on a modern runtime running on 64-bit platforms you should be fine (easy to verify by changing your dev environment’s clock).



Nothing wrong? You say that now, but just wait until the year 292277026596!


Nah, just switch to unsigned 32bit, much easier fix and someone will probably have figured it all out until that becomes a problem! ;-)


Some (many?) currently-updated 32-but OSS have been changed to use a 64-bit timestamp now, too.


On recollection there's definitely a non-zero number of 32 bit machines I worked on up until I quit my last job.

Out of support, aging 32bit SPARC hosts running 4.6c SAP.


> Out of support, aging 32bit SPARC hosts running 4.6c SAP.

That's production!




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