More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.
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And it's represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.
64 bits value
.... About that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
This is for a 32bits encoded epoch time, which will run out in 2038.
Epoch time on 64 bits will see the sun swallow Earth before it runs out.
That's the 32 bit timestamp
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I've seen plenty of people use ISO 8601 for storage as well as display.
Yeah assuming tech gets that far before imploding
What about the year TREE(3)?
Ugh, I definitely don’t have the bandwidth to support anything beyond the year graham’s number.
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