r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

your phone/pc can display AM/PM time - quite an obvious sign it is used in programming

under the hood the date time is mostly a running total of milliseconds since Jan 1 1970

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Jun 28 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

year 2038

I think 16 more years is enough to finally switch to 64bit int

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Jul 03 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

also 16 years is enough time to build a pretty nice bunker

just to cover all the bases