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So you’re using this confusing 5-digit notation to help clarify things for historians ~8000 years from now?
by Cyph0n 6y ago
So you’re using this confusing 5-digit notation to help clarify things for historians ~8000 years from now?
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6y agoYear := clarifying-digit digit+ era clarifying-digit := 0 digit := [0-9] era := b?ce|ad
- pjmlp 6y agoAssuming that they can even read this.....
- notahacker 6y agoThe Long Now blog seems to suggest it's more about reminding devs in the 9990s that if they don't store dates as 5 digit integers they might have a millennium bug! Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.
- benibela 6y agoBut it makes it very encouraging to store them as 16 bit integers
- ALittleLight 6y agoHe clearly wrote that he's doing it to put the scale of history into perspective for the reader. You're free to believe it's a good or bad notation, but I don't see what it adds to be hostile to a person for their unusual notation.
- kragen 6y agoNo, it's just a bit of thought-provoking fun! It also has the advantage of really pissing off the kind of mindless conformists who beat up gay people, hackers, and anybody else who seems "odd" or "queer". There's literally nothing in my comment or in the page it links to about clarifying things for historians. That would be stupid.
- canadianfella 6y agoBeating up gay people is the same as calling out your weird bullshit.