This is correct Unix time is eternal i kinda wished we would change the calendar again 1970 is just as arbitrary as 2024 years ago so why not set the mark at 1970. Tomorrow will be Jan 1st 0055
Greg’s age and mood is highly deterministic, and he has atoms in his body present from the big bang. His sense of time varies, and seems to accelerate as he gets older, and he will tell you about it with extreme detail down to either 2 decimal places or 3 beers. If you call him up and ask him what time it is, the degree of the obscenities used in his reply is usually a good enough correction coefficient when calling over long distances.
Also two of his kids hate him, and his current wife is thinking of leaving him; all countable metrics that one can use to ascertain what stage in his life Greg is at, and thus what the local date/time in your area is, based on all the above Greg stats.
Nah, all this is solved with star-dates. One of the Federation’s crowning achievements - Warp Drive is small potatoes compared to getting hundreds of delegates from as many different worlds to all agree on one calendar system that is not based on their own world’s orbit around its primary… Diplomatic impossibility, but they managed it.
There is always the assumption that we will colonize the galaxy in 7000 years. When really we will still be on earth and someone is still running and old FreeBSD machine in prod and just doesn’t want to update cause it still works.
While I doubt will be stuck on Earth in 7000 years, there’s absolutely going to be some of those old systems with 7000+ years of uptime. Just throw the nanite repair gel on it every 50 or so years.
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It is only ~21th on the list of future problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs
Don’t worry, we’re not far away from 2038, when 32 bit unix time rolls over 😅
I will be so excited if we make it that far, double if I’m alive to see it.
I hope you’re not storing time in floating point.
The Y9999.999999871K bug
We won’t be around, but Unix time will be.
This is correct Unix time is eternal i kinda wished we would change the calendar again 1970 is just as arbitrary as 2024 years ago so why not set the mark at 1970. Tomorrow will be Jan 1st 0055
<Padme mode> Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)
What, and miss out on all the overtime pay from fixing everything at the last minute?
A surprising number of embedded devices (you know, the ones controlling machinery in factories and stuff) are still running 32-bit processors.
But you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.
Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.
If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:
That’s easy. We’d just use Greg time.
Greg’s age and mood is highly deterministic, and he has atoms in his body present from the big bang. His sense of time varies, and seems to accelerate as he gets older, and he will tell you about it with extreme detail down to either 2 decimal places or 3 beers. If you call him up and ask him what time it is, the degree of the obscenities used in his reply is usually a good enough correction coefficient when calling over long distances.
Also two of his kids hate him, and his current wife is thinking of leaving him; all countable metrics that one can use to ascertain what stage in his life Greg is at, and thus what the local date/time in your area is, based on all the above Greg stats.
Relief point: we will still be using unix timestamp.
Anxious point: we will still be using unix timestamp.
Don’t we technically already have to account for time dilation for things like GPS satellites
We’re all just going to use tz_database and turn the maintainer into a ghost trapped in the machine for all of eternity.
Nah, all this is solved with star-dates. One of the Federation’s crowning achievements - Warp Drive is small potatoes compared to getting hundreds of delegates from as many different worlds to all agree on one calendar system that is not based on their own world’s orbit around its primary… Diplomatic impossibility, but they managed it.
Also, interplanetary timezones and leaps.
Holds up fork and squints at it
It’s what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.
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Well, that was certainly the peak of human artistic achievement.
I will just rely on ISO 8602 to introduce a universal time format
Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.
Storing the date as offset in seconds from 1970 in 64bit should last to about the end of the universe, after that it’s not my problem.
Programmers in the next universe: deep sigh
Bold of you to assume the human race will survive past be Y2038 problem
There is always the assumption that we will colonize the galaxy in 7000 years. When really we will still be on earth and someone is still running and old FreeBSD machine in prod and just doesn’t want to update cause it still works.
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Also hasn’t been rebooted in 7000 years, because uptime is important
While I doubt will be stuck on Earth in 7000 years, there’s absolutely going to be some of those old systems with 7000+ years of uptime. Just throw the nanite repair gel on it every 50 or so years.
With virtualization you might be running a 7000 year old software on the new hardware
03:14:07 UTC, 19 January 2038.
My company still uses 2 digit year date. They’re gonna have to deal with the whole y2k thing all over again
Surely AI will make it easier.
I asked ChatGPT for some potential solutions to the Y10K issue. I particularly enjoyed this suggestion:
We simply reset the years when the Butlerian Jihad happens.
Also computer issues aren’t a problem anymore after that (perhaps aside from the Ixians).
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What would Y10K cigarettes be like?
Superweed.
I said this to my father in 98/99ish when we were already updating to four digits anyway and he told me I was crazy.
We’ll see who has the last laugh.
Y10k’s gonna be wild