• @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        216 months ago

        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

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        6 months ago

        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.

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      26 months ago

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