Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On Mon, 19 May 2025 15:19:57 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

everything is going to have issues at Y10K
all common 64 bit times should first break after Y10K (**)

What’s an obvious choice of a more important event for a time reference
than the Big Bang? Better than any random historical (or worse, still,
fictional) event that only has meaning for just some parts of our species.

The time in multiples of the Planck interval (≅ 5.39e-44 seconds) since
the Big Bang can be represented as an integer in about 202 bits. So it
seems natural to round that size up to 256 bits, which gives us a range
that can cover quite a lot of time into the future.