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It's a Long Now Foundation concept [0]. The idea is to encourage people to think on a more civilizational time scale, and avoid another 'millenium bug' problem
by mandmandam 2y ago
It's a Long Now Foundation concept [0]. The idea is to encourage people to think on a more civilizational time scale, and avoid another 'millenium bug' problem in ~7095 years.
0 - https://longnow.org/about/ https://longnow.org/about/
- swores 2y agoAh, thanks for the explanation.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoI am relieved that when archaeologists download HN archives 7095 years from now, they won't be confused about which "1965" we were discussing! https://xkcd.com/1683/ https://xkcd.com/1683/
- dredmorbius 2y agoA somewhat frequently raised question: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22leading%20zero%22%20year&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22long%20now%22%20year%20zero&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
- saagarjha 2y agoOk, and what happens in 97975 years? I guess the Long Now people didn't think that far ahead, did they?
- kragen 2y agoYou mean in the year 099999?
- saagarjha 2y agoOk so the goal is to just have a leading zero at all times?
- mandmandam 2y ago0I 0don't 0see 0why 0not. Really though, it's a nice way to provoke some thought, and maybe even start to balance our rather extreme bias towards the very immediate future.