Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-squaremessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square181fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarestangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 days agoMilliseconds since the epoch is the only true time
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days ago2 more bits could have kept us in the same epoch pretty much forever. What were they thinking??
minus-squarestangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 days agoYou get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 days agoUnix time is 32bit seconds, not milliseconds
Milliseconds since the epoch is the only true time
2 more bits could have kept us in the same epoch pretty much forever. What were they thinking??
You get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!
Unix time is 32bit seconds, not milliseconds