Re: [PLUG] History is 1/2 over on Saturday

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:26:09AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:17:56AM -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
> > Think about it... The original Unix clock implementation was in 16 bits.
> > ... and this weekend it dies! '
> 
> Umm...I don't get it.  You can't even hold the number of seconds in a
> single *day* in 16 bits.  How'd they manage to stretch it out to work
> for 34 years?

i think there's some funny math going on here.  the max int for 16 bits
is not half of the max int of 32 bits, that would be a 31 bit int :)


	sean

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