[plt-scheme] seconds->date 32bit limitation

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 18 21:16:10 EST 2009

At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:50:06 -0800, YC wrote:
> is the seconds->date limitation bound to the underlying OS arcitecture?

Yes.

> I noticed that date->seconds can return numbers outside of the range for
> seconds->date, and wonder whether seconds->date can be expanded to handle
> the greater range easily.

Do you mean `date->seconds' or `find-seconds'? I don't think
`find-seconds' can return an out-of-range result, because it uses
`seconds->date' to find a match. But maybe you mean a `date->seconds'
function that I don't know.


Matthew



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