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minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·27 days agoI’d only ever heard of the Unix epoch one. It’s interesting that three separate systems (with three different underlying data types) all overflow so close together.
minus-squareHackworth@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoApparently the GPS one is a regular thing, every ~19 years.
minus-squareHonytawk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoProbably have been invented around the same time and tick up at about the same rate.
I’d only ever heard of the Unix epoch one. It’s interesting that three separate systems (with three different underlying data types) all overflow so close together.
Apparently the GPS one is a regular thing, every ~19 years.
Probably have been invented around the same time and tick up at about the same rate.