time_t

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:

> This may be a silly question, but why is GnuCash limited to using dates that
> are supported by time_t? Could we get rid of time_t?
>
> I don't need to enter 18th century transactions; I'm just curious.

time_t is #seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00

So you cannot enter 18th century transactions via time_t.

As a result, I don't really understand your question.

> Cheers,
> Charles

-derek

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