Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
This quick fix, however, tests for *long* to be 64-bit or not. What we
need, though, is a test that says whether *whatever data type we use for
timestamps* is 64-bit or not.
The same quick fix was used to handle the similar problem where Git's
source code uses `unsigned long` to represent size, instead of `size_t`.
So let's just add another prerequisite to test specifically whether
timestamps are represented by a 64-bit data type or not. Later, when we
will have switched to using `time_t` where appropriate, we can flip that
prerequisite to test `time_t` instead of `long`.
The changes that move from LONG_IS to TIME_IS in this patch are all
about time (iow, LONG_IS_64BIT prereq is still used in the check on
sizes). The patch looks sensible.