timezone stuff on 64 bit machines

[Erik Troan]

On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> > > Are you sure this is the problem?  Last I heard, the tzcode works fine
> > > on NetBSD/alpha (I integrated it into the NetBSD C library virtually
> > > unchanged).
> > 
> > I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure.
> > 
> > Does NetBSD/alpha use 64 bit time_t or 32 bit? If it uses only 32 time
> > bits, that would explain this.
> 
> NetBSD, like Digital UNIX, uses a 32-bit time_t.

That explains the problems I'm seeing then. Linux uses 64 bit time on
Alphas. 

Is there a chance of getting a 64 bit fix for the timezone stuff?

Erik

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