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I'm a little bit surprised nobody pointed out the obvious. When we first communicate with aliens about our time system we will start by explaining unix epoch.
by athrowaway3z 4y ago
I'm a little bit surprised nobody pointed out the obvious.
When we first communicate with aliens about our time system we will start by explaining unix epoch.
Only than will we break out the spaghetti code required to map dates and zones and the uncertainty of some historical jumps.
- MayeulC 4y agoWell, unix timestamps are still tied to UTC, which has leap seconds for some reason... I would prefer if we had a few seconds of an offset with Zulu "GMT" Time (pardon the double acronym).
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- School-Cotton 4y agoUnix time doesn’t include leap seconds.
- NavinF 4y agoAs I said 6 months ago, "Naw that would make way too much sense": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855416
- naniwaduni 4y agoRealistically, the first of our time systems that aliens are likely to encounter and associate with us is probably GPS time? I sure as heck hope it is, at least...
- MayeulC 4y agoGPS only goes up to 20 years though. Ever heard of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover ?
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