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I would hope that time and date formats would be redesigned by that point. If we would live to y10k, I’d expect a lot of space colonization. At that point, I’d expect there to be some other point of reference to define timestamps.

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DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Agreed. Let’s get the conversation started on this. Personally, I’d like to use midnight of January 1st, 1970. That seems like a nice rational spot. The new time scale will just count the number of seconds since then. So, for example, this comment could be written at approximately 1699879376.

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- dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I love it! That would be EPOCH!
  
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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Show me the real excel fan boy
  
  [comment before with A0000]
  
  I said the real fan boy
  
  [DaleGribble88]
  
  Perfect
  
  Seriously though, I wonder if the other commenter just missed the mark
  
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  - Strobelt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s Unix epoch, dude. It predates excel
    
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