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Everything happens in epochtime. How you want that displayed is up to you.
by aorloff 3y ago
Everything happens in epochtime. How you want that displayed is up to you.
- dbrueck 3y agoUnfortunately, this take is overly simplistic for a lot of scenarios (I'm looking at you, broadcast TV).
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoBut what about things that have already happened? Negative epochtime?
- aorloff 3y agoThings that happened before 1970 ?
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoSure. When I want to reference a time before 1970 in a computer, how do I use epochtime? Just negative values?
- LK5ZJwMwgBbHuVI 3y agoYes. That's why time_t is signed, after all. Do you need to represent times before 1901? Then use 64 bits! Oh, and does it matter? You could just as well store the number of days and have more than enough precision with regard to events which happened half a century ago.