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Nobody expected Unix timestamp to survive so long when it was designed, and norm was to use different format in databases that would care about dates beyond 203
by p_l 4y ago
Nobody expected Unix timestamp to survive so long when it was designed, and norm was to use different format in databases that would care about dates beyond 2038
- bombcar 4y agoAnd memory was very precious. Why waste bits that would always be zero?
- p_l 4y agoNot just bits - unix timestamp ossified as 32bit value on PDP-11, and handling longer timestamp would involve a lot more code to implement arithmetic on larger than 32bit values, plus also would complicate C language