We're being short-sighted

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There might be a new calendar year system by then. Probably some galactic dictator who says that the beginning of their rule is now Year Zero.

Year Zero of the Glorious Zorg Empire!

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I don't think 10000 year is a problem. There is a real "year 2038 problem" that affects system storing unix time in signed int32, but it's mostly solved already. The next problem will be in year 33000 or something like that.

ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed

Lol China used to use "Year 1" right after Xinhai Revolution.

Its "民国" (ROC) followed by the year number

Example: 民国一年 ROC Year One (aka 1912)

(ROC stand for Republic of China, btw)

Then the communists kicked the KMT out, and I think the ROC government in exhile in Taiwan stopped using it.

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In 9999, this meme will be problematic because it assumes the entire galaxy conforms to an Earth-based calendar system.

The Giant Korean

Good news! We'll be exctinct long before this happens. One less thing to worry about!

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Seems hyperbolic to assume we will be extinct by 9999.

Sure we’re heading for a climate crisis, but I don’t think all humans will be dead; Just the poorest.

idunnololz

Please no.

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Well the USA is on Earth so obviously the earth calendar is the default.

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That has forever been the fallacy.

The poor won't die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.

Lucy :3

Don't worry, we'll be extinct soon, hopefully. Maybe even before int32_t runs out. Unfortunately not soon enough to stop the humans impact on earth before the worst damage is done.

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I wonder how Voyagers' code represents time

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It just counts up, according to this answer.

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That's true until it isn't. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.

The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.

Flax

Still set by London

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Programmers dealing with the timezones of asymmetric period binary and trinary star systems once we go interstellar

BlanketsWithSmallpox

I'll let you in on a secret.

Humanity and the animals that we like will get through just fine.

Humans in general and the vast majority of biodiversity will be fucked.

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just to nitpick, they said the "poorest", not the poor in general.
The poorest are the most vulnerable, and, I suppose, not absolutely crucial for the ruling class.

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"Were being short-sighted"

Lol Picard maneuver. Pretty sure your opinion wasn't asked for.

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I've been curious about that myself. On one hand, it still seems far away. On the other hand, it's a bit over 13 years away and I have gear actively in use that's older than that today.

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Actual programmers wondering why this joke doesn't mention 65535...