Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "C++: Size Matters in Platform Compatibility" Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1566412232 1858 166.84.1.5 (21 Aug 2019 18:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:30:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Liz: It's actually happened, the entire Internet is a massive game of Redcode X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB XFrom: is a real address Encrypted: double rot-13 User-Agent: Vectrex rn 2.1 (beta) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:67847 comp.lang.c:145749 In comp.lang.c, Bonita Montero wrote: > I prefer Win32's FILETIME which is a 64 bit integer that > counts the number of 100ns-steps since 1.1.1601 00:00. First thing I think of when I see that is "In what calendar?" Gregorian transition started in 1582, happend in Britain and it's colonies in 1752, and I think you have to get to 1923 for Europe to finish switching from Julian. (Greece was 1923, Turkey was 1926.) > Unfortunately that's not portable. Yes. Julian is still drifting apart at a rate of 1 day per 400 years, which is around 0.0016 seconds day. That's a big jump in nanoseconds. Elijah ------ given MS, probably whatever calender Redmond was on in 1995