If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
It seems like it'd get increasingly impractical as the years go on to hundreds of thousands and millions of years to write them out that way, but then...I guess technically one may already do this with the preceding years, so future's fair game for it?
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I would hope that time and date formats would be redesigned by that point. If we would live to y10k, I'd expect a lot of space colonization. At that point, I'd expect there to be some other point of reference to define timestamps.
Agreed. Let's get the conversation started on this. Personally, I'd like to use midnight of January 1st, 1970. That seems like a nice rational spot. The new time scale will just count the number of seconds since then. So, for example, this comment could be written at approximately 1699879376.
I love it! That would be EPOCH!
Show me the real excel fan boy
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I said the real fan boy
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Perfect
That's Unix epoch, dude. It predates excel