phpBB's storage of time and dates in the database

[smithy_dll]

You don't even need 64bit computers to do 64bit integer operations, most modern 32bit processors can do them blazingly fast.

[hasten]

You don't even need 64bit computers to do 64bit integer operations, most modern 32bit processors can do them blazingly fast.

BigInt?

[night.exe]

Aren't most processors way more than 64bit anyway? Even Sega's Dreamcast of 1998 had a 128bit processor.

[hasten]

Aren't most processors way more than 64bit anyway? Even Sega's Dreamcast of 1998 had a 128bit processor.

No, Intel Pentium 4 processors and prior are 32-bit, as well as AMD Athlons. The AMD Opteron and Hammer and 64-bit / x86 compatible. Even Apple's Motorola processors were 32-bit until the G5.

[DeadEye686]

The Dreamcast did have a 128-bit RISC processor, but it was certainly not the norm. Way ahead of its time.

[Uchiha Nick]

Aren't most processors way more than 64bit anyway? Even Sega's Dreamcast of 1998 had a 128bit processor.

wasnt that for graphics?

[NeoThermic]

Well, here's something that not many people know... windows stores dates as a 64bit int.... but not in any logical way...

Basically it stores a file's date in a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601.

Yes... number of 100 nanosecond intervals since 01/01/1601

*why?!*

NeoThermic

[cyberCrank]

the first date of the quadri-century

** so now we can fix the DST issue **