On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:24:18 Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > Thank you for the report. Does the attached patch solve the problem?
>
> I think it is a step in the right direction, but it shows we have another
> generic win64 problem:
>
> time_t is 64bit, long is 32bit [*]
>
> We must use time_t types to store time and we cannot use longs to hold
> them... (thus curl_easy_getinfo's CURLINFO_FILETIME for example is
> currently broken...)
>
> [*] = http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3b2e7499%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

Thanks for the link. As far as I understand, the type cast from 64bit time_t
to 32bit long should be safe for values below January 19, 2038. So we still
have some time to improve the API.

Kamil
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