[vtk-developers] Re: Problems with vtkTimeStamp

[Brad King]

Will Schroeder wrote:
> I have to say that I am very pleased that VTK ran long enough that the 
> time stamp actually wrapped around :-) I'd like to believe that this is 
> because VTK is getting very robust and not because there are too many 
> complicated cascades of modified time going on...
> 
> I'm going to float this past the VTK developers and see what we think 
> the best course of action is.../ /I appreciate the feedback.
> 
> At 01:11 PM 6/3/2005, Thomas, NJ \(Nick\) wrote:
>> Is there anything i can do to change this behaviour easily? I'm 
>> guessing that changing the time stamp to an unsigned INT64 would
>> be a big job...?!? I'm not so au fait with these things... is it 
>> possible to change some compiler options?

Now that we have vtkTypeInt64 defined on all platforms we can probably 
switch to using it for vtkTimeStamp.  With a 63-bit counter, we could 
have the first 32 bits roll over once per second for 70 years before the 
whole counter rolls over.

-Brad