The slides are confusing to me too, another slide [1] states that they will change time_t to be "long long" in a future release so the tagged type will still be

The slides are confusing to me too, another slide [1] states that they will change time_t to be "long long" in a future release so the tagged type will still be there. I'm also not sure why the OpenBSD people think that there will be lots of problems with ports [2], I'm typing this on a NetBSD system with 64 bit time_t, things that broke have had patches pushed upstream. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00037.html http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0003... [2] http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00039.html http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0003...