One of my favourite things in fiction is Vernor Vinge's discussion of programmer-archaeologistshttps://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137386992398766081 …
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I'm not sure what odds I'd give on Unix time still being widely used in a thousand years. But they're certainly a lot higher than 0.1%.
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Incidentally, the level of backward compatibility of systems offered by major companies & products (Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Chrome, Firefox etc) is quite amazing.
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Some people are thinking about making the lives of future programmer-archeologists easier: https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2814228.2814250 …
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