https://xkcd.com/2867

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It’s not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn’t know and the Devil isn’t telling.]

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We have that, it’s called Unix time, and the only thing it doesn’t account for is time dilation due to relativity.

it’s perfect

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If your system hasn’t been upgraded to 64-bit types by 2038, you’d deserve your overflow bug

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Let’s just nake it 128-Bit so it’s not our problem anymore.
Hell, let’s make it 256-Bit because it sounds like AES256

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64 bits is already enough not to overflow for 292 billion years. That’s 21 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.

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Cries in vintage computer collection tears.

You are a monster phoneymouse

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I love the word “Epochalypse”, from the wiki page you linked

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I thought that’s what datetime was based off of, tbh.

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I know, but it’s not standard anywhere in the world.

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