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“In 30 years from now everything will probably be 512 bit and flying cars, right?”
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
“In 30 years from now everything will probably be 512 bit and flying cars, right?”
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoThat’s the wrong thing. It’s not “will this computer still be running” it’s “does the life of this format work over the time people will use it”. If in 2000 we had 512bit and flying cars, Unix epoch still could be the standard. The first epoch seconds computers aren’t running things anymore. But, it lives on as a standard. So the issue isn’t “was it a good idea to count seconds starting at 1970”, but rather “why the hell would anyone use signed for a value that can only be positive? ... and then keep doing it once they realized the problem!?” 2105 or 2106 wont be an issue for unsigned. No one will use a 32bit standard much longer let alone in the 30 years leading up to the problem date.