Comment on Or we could do metric time

Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We should all just switch to Unix time.

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  • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’ll be great for 14 years

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux has been switching that to 64 bit, applications just need to catch up and use the new call. They’ve got almost a decade and a half, so I’d hope they’ll all be updated, but you know there’ll be something subtle and critical that only gets done at the last second.

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  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We could inadvertently make 12/31/1969 and 1/1/1970 the most dangerous destination for time travelers, sounds fun to me.

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