From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 03:50:24 CDT
In <3SPsyCC8LpF5QAbM@turnpike.com> Paul Overell <paulo@turnpike.com> writes:
>Is using POSIX time a good choice for canonicalization?
>As I recall it runs out in 2038, and is ambiguous in that it uses the
>same integer value for both a leap second and the following second.
I guess they will fix it before then. In any case, there is an obvious
interpretation when it is to be specified in decimal, as Henry has pointed
out.
>The first problem will become a show stopper, the second is arguably not
>important (just means that two different times get the same hash).
I think I could live with that,
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