EIP-5007: Change uint64 to int64 #6043
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EIP-5007: Change uint64 to int64
The max value of
int64
is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. As a timestamp, 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 is about year 292,471,210,648.uint256
is too big for C, C++, Java, Go, etc, andint64
is natively supported by mainstream programming languages.