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minus-squareGissaMittJobb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoIt’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
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 days ago33,000 would come from other programs that store the year as a 16-bit signed int. Year 32,768, to be precise.
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
33,000 would come from other programs that store the year as a 16-bit signed int. Year 32,768, to be precise.