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| author | Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> | 2025-04-02 17:41:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2025-04-14 10:10:17 -0300 |
| commit | 363bbdbd2aeaae1e00f3872f2ba19a4a3c17bdf1 (patch) | |
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manual: Mention POSIX-1.2024 requires time_t to be 64 bit or wider.
* manual/time.texi (Time Types): Mention POSIX-1.2024 requires 64 bit
time_t.
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index 04c97f52ff..6b89b8539f 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ and pass them to the functions that convert them to broken-down time On POSIX-conformant systems, @code{time_t} is an integer type and its values represent the number of seconds elapsed since the @dfn{POSIX Epoch}, which is January 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)@. -The count of seconds ignores leap seconds. +The count of seconds ignores leap seconds. Additionally, POSIX.1-2024 +added the requirement that @code{time_t} be at least 64 bits wide. @Theglibc{} additionally guarantees that @code{time_t} is a signed type, and that all of its functions operate correctly on negative |