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Re: Langwar crash

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Nov 06, 2006
• 570 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> > How curious, my time() returns a -ve integer (and it does advance at the
> > correct rate)
> > 
> >  From the docs
> > 
> > Description:  Return the number of seconds since some fixed point in the
> > past.
> > 
> > Does this mean that I am writing this, on this computer, before this fixed
> > point in the past?
> > 
> > Simply add this above procedure sched() in sched.e
> > 
> > global function my_time()
> > return time() + 12000000
> > end function
> > 
> > and replace all instances of time() with my_time throughout the whole of
> > langwar,
> > 
> > to bring yourself 'up to date', or 'back to the future', or..... etc
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> Hi
> 
> Is this a feature of time() on 64 bit systems? 

Even on 32-bit systems, I always had in the back of my mind
that you shouldn't count on time() starting at zero.

> Is this a dignostic technique
> for telling you are running on a 64 bit system? 

I imagine there's a more direct way of telling.

> Should it be fixed? Does it matter?

I could at least emphasize in the docs that time() does not
have to be positive. I should also fix Language War.

> What will happen in 2036?

I think date() might be more affected by that,
not time().

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com