Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days agoWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-square199arrow-up1128file-text
arrow-up1128message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days agomessage-square199file-text
minus-square@stangel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink15•14 days agoMilliseconds since the epoch is the only true time
minus-square@Steve@startrek.websitelinkfedilink2•13 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-213 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•13 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