> people do and will continue to do stuff like
>
> time_t tx;
> ...
> time(&tx);
> write(tx,sizeof(time_t),fd);
>
> and this gets embedded into fileformats like tar and various databases
> making it very hard to change.
That is flat out broken. Nothing you can do will fix that. You obviously
can't fix that with a library or kernel change because any change in the
definition of a 'time_t' will _break_ that code. Code that has that in it
_deserves_ to break.
DS
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