Favorited How much time until the Epochalypse? by Michael HertigMichael Hertig (epochalypse.today)
A countdown to the end of 32-bit Unix time

Paraphrasing Jay‑Z: If your time_t is 32-​bit, I feel bad for you, son. I got 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 problems but an Epochalypse ain’t one

Follow-​up: Paul Bennett on Facebook asks, When are we going to move to 128-​bit signed integer epoch seconds with a 128-​bit IEEE 754 floating point offset in seconds?

I’m not sure how useful quadruple-​precision floating point seconds are, but as for epoch seconds, Trond Endrestøl concluded in a  blog that we would need to move by early December in the year 292,277,026,596. It wouldn’t be much of a year, though, as the sun will have long ago engulfed the Earth (so how do you measure a year?), our entire Local Group of galaxies will have merged into one super-​galaxy, and all the other galaxies will have receded outside the observable universe.

So 292 gigayears should be enough for anyone (that’s still recognizably human), just as 640 kilobytes was once enough for anyone”.

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