We're being short-sighted

[idunnololz@lemmy.world]

Please no.

[zink@programming.dev]

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

[donkter@lemmy.world]

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.

[30p87@feddit.org]

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.

[pfm@scribe.disroot.org]

I wonder how Voyagers' code represents time

[dovah@lemmy.world]

It just counts up, according to this answer.

[dogwater@lemmy.world]

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_vert@feddit.uk]

Still set by London

[agent641@lemmy.world]

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

[blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world]

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.

[zeca@lemmy.eco.br]

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.

[letsdothis@lemmy.world]

"Were being short-sighted"

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

[toddestan@lemm.ee]

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.

[a9cx34udp4zz0@lemmy.world]

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

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.

[croquette@sh.itjust.works]

And it's represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.

[randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz]

and I think the ROC government in exhile in Taiwan stopped using it.

Actually it is still used. It's everywhere in legal documents, government documents and stuff. Though people more commonly say 2024 instead of 民國113年.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

64 bits value

.... About that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[smeenz@lemmy.nz]

That's the 32 bit timestamp

[genosseflosse@feddit.org]

You still need loaders, drivers, retailers to get anything to the customer. A lot of rich ski and holiday towns can't staff the stores and Cafe's, because the employees can't afford to pay rent in the same towns