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poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

Schadenboner posted:

I guess all the way until 2038-01-19 03:14:07?

:shrug:

does anyone know what theyre planning to do when we reach this timestamp? are they just gonna add one more digit?

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lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
i guess thatll be epoch number 2 then

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




ahh the Unix y2k, in y2038

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008

poty posted:

does anyone know what theyre planning to do when we reach this timestamp? are they just gonna add one more digit?

No, it's easy: just change all those signed 32-bit integers to be unsigned.

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Doom Mathematic posted:

No, it's easy: just change all those signed 32-bit integers to be unsigned.

:hmmyes:

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Doom Mathematic posted:

No, it's easy: just change all those signed 32-bit integers to be unsigned.

dates before 1970 don’t need to exist

Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006
Lots of things are already using 64 bits for Unix time, but there have to be things that everyone forgot about

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




like deeze nutz

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

cooking with thymecube

in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

agreed op the time built-in sucks use /usr/bin/time instead

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Captain Foo posted:

cooking with thymecube

educated soup-ed

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_ObDJ1BWw

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
the new UNIX time standard should be the 128-bit number of nanoseconds since the moon landing, universal time

just to make things interesting

SYSV Fanfic
Sep 9, 2003

by Pragmatica
time is worthless for 99% of people who run it. They want date.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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eschaton posted:

the new UNIX time standard should be the 128-bit number of nanoseconds since the moon landing, universal time

just to make things interesting

how are you gonna define the landing time with that much precision though

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Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Jonny 290 posted:

how are you gonna define the landing time that never actually occurred :tinfoil:

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