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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why we should just move to a universal time zone and stop with the day light savings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

We have that, it's called Unix time, and the only thing it doesn't account for is time dilation due to relativity.

it's perfect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If your system hasn’t been upgraded to 64-bit types by 2038, you’d deserve your overflow bug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's just nake it 128-Bit so it's not our problem anymore.
Hell, let's make it 256-Bit because it sounds like AES256

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

64 bits is already enough not to overflow for 292 billion years. That’s 21 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.