Forums Bug Reports Negative value to ctime

Waiting for my Empty "ACTION" PRIVMSG not displayed topic to get it's first answer, I just remembered an uncomplete feature that I really would appreciate being fixed :

$ctime, $date and other $asctime just can't handle negative time values.

I have of course written my own time routines, but as time goes, that sounds more and more overkill to me. Most systems fluently use negative time values as seconds before January 1 1970, mIRC should be one of those.

And most of those same systems will stop working properly in 2038 (link).

The size of the integer used to represent UNIX time is unrelated as to whether negative values should behave as dates before the UNIX epoch. If mIRC accepts negative values in this way using a 32bit integer, it will still behave the same way with those values if/when it switches to a 64-bit integer in the future.

It is actually very related, but I didn't know that mIRC actually has the same problem (time values of 2^31 and up don't work either). I was merely pointing out that "other programs do it too" is not necessarily a good argument; I agree that the feature suggestion itself makes sense..