Re: ldapsearch in OL 2

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Peter W wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:37:00PM +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Peter W wrote:
> > >
> > > So use a generic integer match. That's what we're doing.
> > > We've got a few
> > > attributes in a custom schema for time values, and have opted to use
> > > the Unix standard seconds-since-epoc instead of the LDAP standard.
> >
> > How do you store a date before 1970-01-01? Off course you can argue
> > that *your* applications don't need to do that.
> 
> Negative values.
> 
>   $ perl -e '$time = (-1 * 24 * 60 * 60); print "\nThe day before the
>     epoc began is \"".gmtime($time)."\"\n";'
> 
>   The day before the epoc began is "Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 1969"

Sorry, but this has limitations. How many of us are already
running OpenLDAP with signed 64-bit integers?

Ciao, Michael.