Pondering 2038 - a suggestion for an improved time_t

Posted Aug 19, 2013 11:31 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Pondering 2038 - a suggestion for an improved time_t by sdalley
Parent article: Pondering 2038

No, for leap seconds we'd just have nsec/attosec part to go up to 2 seconds instead of one. So it works.

And if you don't want extra precision then you can simply ignore it. Or we can do the same trick one more time: use 64 bit for seconds, 32 bits for nanoseconds and 32 bits for attoseconds.