By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 30 November 2004
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MikeW
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Signed 32 bit time in seconds runs out in 2038; we should go to 64 bit time before too much depends on it.
We could then use negative values to represent dates before 1970 - plenty of seconds to represent a few million years there ...
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