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2038: Only 21 years away
On the other other hand, getting greedy and using a 64 bit integer to count nanoseconds only moves the problem 448 years forwards. That's long enough to seem like it's perfectly safe, but short enough that it might just not be.
jabl
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libuv, which sits underneath node.js, uses 64-bit nanosecond timestamps. And by that time, everything will be javascript.
THE END IS NIGH1111!!!!!
erubin
on March 21, 2017
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doing it that way would be better writing
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