[Boost-users] boost::posix::time_duration

[boost][date_time] Hi there, I have a question about the boost::posix::time_duration class. It has accessors such as: - hours() - minutes() that return a data type of long. I would have expected it to return a datatype of boost::int64_t (or boost::int32_t) because could there be a risk that the return value would cause an overflow on an 8 bit embedded platform. Regards, Michael