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Using a signed int allows you to represent times before 1970. This is not just theoretical; it’s done in the wild. Materialize, the data warehouse software I wo
by School-Cotton 3y ago
Using a signed int allows you to represent times before 1970. This is not just theoretical; it’s done in the wild. Materialize, the data warehouse software I work on, used to have a bug causing it to fail on negative Unix times and we found out when somebody tried to load in a database with human dates of birth.
- NooneAtAll3 3y ago2018-July-22 was the last day "that wouldn't work for all people" excuse was true. Chiyo Miyako was born on 1901-May-02
- spartanatreyu 3y agoYeah, but now when you try to load in a database of documents (e.g. legal, blueprints, etc...), the date the document was created crashes everything instead.