Keeping on topic

[Matt Graham]

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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