From: raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos)   
   Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year   
       
   Mark Lloyd  wrote:   
       
   > On 12/30/2016 04:37 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >    
   > > The time is stored in a time_t value returned by the time()   
   > > function.  The time_t type is required to be a real type (integer   
   > > or floating-point, not complex) capable of representing times.   
   > > (On many systems it's a signed integer representing seconds since   
   > > 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.)   
   >    
   > Used to be 32-bit, why I thought Y2K was going to be much less of a    
   > problem than Y2.038K (Jan 17 2038 IIRC).   
       
   That's U*x, not C. Despite what some anarcho-politically motivated   
   sources may tell you, they're not the same, and except for a very few   
   months in their very beginnings, never have been.   
       
   Richard   
      
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