Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 16 days agoWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-square198fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up179arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 16 days agomessage-square198fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Steve@startrek.websitelinkfedilink2•16 days ago2 more bits could have kept us in the same epoch pretty much forever. What were they thinking??
minus-square@stangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-216 days agoYou get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!
minus-square@Steve@startrek.websitelinkfedilink3•16 days agoUnix time is 32bit seconds, not milliseconds
2 more bits could have kept us in the same epoch pretty much forever. What were they thinking??
You get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!
Unix time is 32bit seconds, not milliseconds