Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 17 days agoWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-square197fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down147
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 17 days agomessage-square197fedilink
minus-square@stangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink15•16 days agoMilliseconds since the epoch is the only true time
minus-square@Steve@startrek.websitelinkfedilink2•16 days ago2 more bits could have kept us in the same epoch pretty much forever. What were they thinking??
minus-square@stangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-216 days agoYou get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!
minus-square@Steve@startrek.websitelinkfedilink3•16 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