On 2021-08-04 13:25, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Please keep the conversion roughly on topic of Linux and the topics
> surrounding Linux such as computers, software.
Pretty much this.
Moving to 64-bit time_t took care of the 2038 problem. However, I have
no doubt that some userspace date libraries will still have problems
with 5-digit years, and those problems will be ignored until roughly
9995.
https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universal-it-changed-history
makes an interesting case for considering a calendar as a technology.
tl;dr: Moving from "Year 12 of the reign of Alexander I" to "Year 123 of
the Seleucid Era" changed everything. The year number just keeps going
up?[0] It's possible to confidently refer to a date in the future?
Every place in the empire uses the same date? We take it for granted,
but the ancient world was like, "Mind... blown!"
[0] Historians of the late Roman republic and early empire sometimes
referred to dates "since the founding of the city" but consular and
later regnal years were much more common.
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