I love the word “Epochalypse”, from the wiki page you linked
Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 months agoWe have that, it’s called the Unix epoch, and the only thing it doesn’t account for is time dilation due to relativity.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought that’s what datetime was based off of, tbh.
Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know, but it’s not standard anywhere in the world.
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
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
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.
nybble41@programming.dev 6 months ago
If you want one-second resolution, sure. If you want nanoseconds a 64-bit signed integer only gets you 292 years. With 128-bit integers you can get a range of over 5 billion years at zeptosecond (10^-21 second) resolution, which should be good enough for anyone. Because who doesn’t need to precisely distinguish times one zeptosecond apart five billion years from now‽
Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cries in vintage computer collection tears.
You are a monster phoneymouse