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Topic: What if society adapts unix time as their new time measurement?

  started this discussion 6 years ago #95,550

How might such a society function when time is measured in seconds?

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Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #1,078,679

We'll be fucked in about 18 years ??

Dreamworks joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 23 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,680

Wait is time not currently measured in seconds??

Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 12 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,683

@previous (Dreamworks)
I guess OP means using only seconds?

Dreamworks replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,705

@previous (Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE)
Yeah like seconds since the 70s

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,726

What if OP stops being a huge nerd?

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,787

@1,078,679 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
Eh, we just have to move from 32-bit time to 64-bit time. The 2038 issue is only a problem for legacy systems using 32-bit Unix time. Linux and BSD are already using 64-bit representations.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,821

People would say they were 100 million(s) seconds old

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 16 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,078,822

@previous (G)
2 billion, almost 2.5 billion years old
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