Submitted by vert1s t3_1057mop in singularity
EbolaFred t1_j3d6pew wrote
Reply to comment by gangstasadvocate in ChatGPT Singularity Joke by vert1s
Yeah, sorry, you're not thinking of it correctly.
Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. Which, in 2038, will be 2,147,483,648 seconds. This is the same as what a signed 32-bit integer can hold (10^32-1), hence the problem.
Switching to 64-bit can hold this timekeeping scheme for almost 300 billion years.
Note that this is just how Unix decided to keep time when it was being developed. There are obviously many newer implementations that get much more granular than "seconds since 1970" and last longer.. The problem is that many programs have standardized on how Unix does it, so programs know what to expect when calling time().
gangstasadvocate t1_j3d7jkw wrote
Still don’t completely understand what you mean by the 1032-1 but hell yeah that’s way more like it 300000,000,000 more years we’ll be long gone before then
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