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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

>>> 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
>>
>> Yes it is a unique ID only.
>> It is converted to a date in footprint editor (legacy mode) to show the last edition date to the user.
>> This is easy to convert a uint64_t to show this message.
>
> I suppose the most elegant solution would be to change time_t in KiCad
> source code to uint64_t. This leaves no ambiguity and should be easy to
> handle with swig.

This sounds good to me, in particular as it reflects more the use of
what this is (a unique ID instead of a timestamp).

-h