• Rusty@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think 10000 year is a problem. There is a real “year 2038 problem” that affects system storing unix time in signed int32, but it’s mostly solved already. The next problem will be in year 33000 or something like that.

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      4 months ago

      It’s going to be significantly more than the year 33000 before we run out of 64-bit epoch timestamps.

      The max value for signed 64-but epoch values is more than 292 billion years away, or 20 times the age of the universe itself.

      So yeah, we’re basically solid forever with 64-bit

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        4 months ago

        33,000 would come from other programs that store the year as a 16-bit signed int. Year 32,768, to be precise.