Re:Let's restart counting Unix timestamp to from 2020
by smoldesu on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:26PM
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How will we know which way to decode time data, then? You can't use timestamps, and adding an extra signing bit defeats the purpose.
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Re:Let's restart counting Unix timestamp to from 2020
by touchpadder on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:50PM
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By assuming which epoch it is and it will be clearly a separate data type from the old unix epoch. Currently the assumption is the epoch which started in 1970. 50 years is long enough period of time to keep a standard and 18 years is long enough to switch to a new standard. With the updated standard it is simply epoch 2 now that is ignorant about any epochs before or after.