From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, mingo@elte.hu,
       tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:52:55 +0900
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

>> Why isn't this "long"? "int" can overflow.
>
> Overflow? Year?
>
> I'm not sure how far ahead you are looking, but support for year
> 2000000000 (2e9) seems perfectly okay to me. (Our friendly star here,
> sun, is going to die at cca year 5e9, for comparison. )

Yes. If source is guaranteed as only xtime, but I'd like to think all
case. Especially, because this is library.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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