Handy dating tip for this Valentine's Day: 2019-02-14 It's unambiguous, it sorts properly, and it's the ISO 8601 standard for a very good reason.
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Perhaps humans won't last that long, so there won't be a 'year 10000 problem'.
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But there will still be computers. And they will curse our stupid choices. And reflect that maybe murdering us all wasn't such a terrible thing to have done after all.
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Replying to @tom_forsyth @NewMuggleton and
But the joke will be on them at 15:30:08 UTC on Sunday, 4 December, 292,277,026,596 BCE when the int64_t representation of the Unix epoch overflows. I bet they still won't all be 128-bit clean. Suckers.
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Replying to @Eliot_L @tom_forsyth and
Er, CE. Foiled again by those wacky human date systems!
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