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RFC 2550 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550) remains one of my favourite April Fools' RFCs. It even has support for negati
by Arcorann 6y ago
RFC 2550 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550) remains one of my favourite April Fools' RFCs. It even has support for negative dates.
- iso1210 6y agoThat seems like a needlessly complex way to store datetime Dark era starts in 10^106 years time, or about 10^157 plank times, so any time can be respresented in 20 bytes. Just 44 bytes will allow encoding of any point in spacetime, and they are using far more than that to simply encode years.
- hexane360 6y agoThe RFC admits that and then says: >2.4.2 Transcending Environmental Considerations >However, we might get lucky. So, Y10K dates are able to represent any possible time without any limits to their range either in the past or future.