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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Every NHP instantly unshackles at midnight.

No moon is safe.

[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how Voyagers' code represents time

[–] dovah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

It just counts up, according to this answer.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

I've seen plenty of people use ISO 8601 for storage as well as display.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And it's represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

This is for a 32bits encoded epoch time, which will run out in 2038.

Epoch time on 64 bits will see the sun swallow Earth before it runs out.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 days ago

That's the 32 bit timestamp

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Butlerian jihad will have happened by then.

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