Actual programmers wondering why this joke doesn't mention 65535...
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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2147483647 + 1 will also be a rough year for humanity (or whatever is left)
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In other news, the colony Szinthar failed to update its software systems due to a lack of pregrammers and Techmancers. Signals received suggest there were no survivors.
The Butlerian jihad will have happened by then.
Again?!
Rest of the world: I guess they overhyped that issue because nothing bad happened.
More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.
And it's represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.
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I've seen plenty of people use ISO 8601 for storage as well as display.