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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 27/11/17 21:18, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 2:56 PM, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 27/11/2017 à 20:18, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit :
>>> On 27/11/17 17:05, Henner Zeller wrote:
>>>> Yes, I know about the time_t being different type situation,
>>>
>>> Why not just use uint64_t instead of time_t? It's identical on every
>>> platform.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>>
> 
> Will this cause issues on platforms where time_t is 32 bits?
> 
These platforms have a serious issue anyway if they'll live long enough
to reach year 2038 ;-)

IIRC the timestamp is just an unique ID of the item in Kicad, right?
It's never propagated to the system time, so 64-bits IMHO 64-bits should
be safe everywhere.

Tom