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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I just wanted to note that the cutest bit from Vinge re: Unix time is that programmer archaeologists thought Unix time started upon humanity first landing on the moon and only later realized they were off a bit <3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#In_literature_and_calendrics …
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Depends on what "still being used" means too - there's likely to be a really long tail of legacy emulated and embedded systems, many of which will be running systems that still use old notions of time regardless of what the "standard" is.
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(At least that's how it worked in my mature programming environment fiction)
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Hmm... In the long run I bet Unix will be important historically, but ultimately replaced by a different OS which will actually last for centuries.
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Surely 1. Assuming our descendants live and have computers.
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