Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime

• nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Isthisreddit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cries in vintage computer collection tears.

      You are a monster phoneymouse

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  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• The_Lurker@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Swatch’s Internet Beats are making more and sense every time Daylight Savings forces a timezones change. Why are we still using base 12 for time anyway?

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Give it a few more decades

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