Re: Enhancement Topics (Format and Usage Bugs)

Actually.....

On most systems, time_32t is a signed 32-bit integer with a max. of 03:14:07
UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038, and only if made "unsigned" does it go on
to 2106.

time_64t on most systems is a signed 64-bit integer.  If treated as
"unsigned", it would have a max. on December 4, 292,277,026,596.

I doubt very much that I (or PasswordSafe) will be here for the second date
(290+ billion years time) and I think it is unlikely that I will really care
about it on the first!

David


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Wolfgang Keller
Sent: 09 May 2007 16:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] Enhancement Topics (Format and Usage Bugs)

Looks good to me.

I have one point with the *time_t* format. - FYI, the 32-bit integer value
has a final date of  2106-02-07 07:28:15 CEST. People, this is less than 100
years from now! :) - I'ld strongly suggest to declare the 64-bit value as a
valid alternative for time_t. Note that this does not conflict existing
32-bit values in little endian orientation. Readers just may detect the
length of a value; also readers who only read the first 4 bytes still gain
the correct values (until 2106).

- Wolfgang


ronys wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Good discussion. I agree that the format description is one of the 
> more important parts of the project (probably what will outlive the 
> application itself, not to mention myself).
>
> I've updated the document a bit, adding an explicit 'representation' 
> section
> 3.1:
> http://passwordsafe.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/passwordsafe/trunk/pwsa
> fe/pws
> afe/docs/formatV3.txt?view=markup
>
> Constructive comments, as usual, are welcome. Other comments > /dev/null.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 		Rony
>
>
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