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From: presotto@pla... presotto@pla...
Subject: [9fans] time size
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:17:47 -0500

I'ld rather go to long long though its more painful. That way,
as dmr points out, dates before the epoch are still representable
as negative numbers.  Going to ulong makes a good chunk of my
life unrepresentable.  Of course, I'll be dead by 2038 and I don't
have any kids so what do I care...

We could always bring back pdp10's and their 36 bit ints.