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marvy | 3 years ago

I thought it was settled in Version 4. Compare:

EDIT: note that back then, it was a signed integer. Turns out that people wanted to be able to represent dates from before 1970 so we lost one bit.

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chungy|3 years ago

My fuzzy memory had me thinking it was version 6, thanks for the correction!

> note that back then, it was a signed integer.

Still and always is. We'd be having a 2106 problem instead of 2038 if it was unsigned 32-bit.

marvy|3 years ago

sorry I meant it was an UNSIGNED integer back then