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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, is there a "time limit" for this epoch value, or can it go on indefinitely?

[–] HeckGazer 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sort of. There's one coming up in 2038 where the number overflows a signed 32 bit integer. Anything using 32 bits for timestamps is going to get a wee bit confused.

This should be the last time that happens though as a 64 bit signed int can carry us to something like the year 290 billion

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You count up 1 second for each second from midnight on Jan 1st, 1970. The Unix epoch.

It can go on as long as we go on counting. Interestingly, it does ignore leap seconds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No friend 7pm the night before. American East Coast in the 1960s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Guys, I fucked up, its actually 1716002297. Apologies for the inconvenience