title: PHP - Storing unix timestamp in mysql (avoiding the time_t overflow)
body: <p>I just realized about the 2038 year's problem when the unix time will be reseted to it's negative minimum range, so I decided to do a little research for this interesting topic.</p>
  
  <p>Right now I am designing the structure of a database (in mysql) and I think these two considerations might resolve the problem:</p>
  
  <p>1) - Storing the time data NOT in a timestamp field but in a bigint (or larger) column.</p>
  
  <p>2) - The server that I will use for my application uses a 64 bits OS, so if I use the php date function it will return the date correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Basing myself in those considerations I'm about to accept using timestamp, what do you think about it? Thank's..</p>