Calculating the heat death of the universe down to the nanosecond are we?
(i mean this is a legitimate reason, it's just amusing the extremes you'd have to go to to break 64bits).
(i mean this is a legitimate reason, it's just amusing the extremes you'd have to go to to break 64bits).
It is easy to run out of bits when trying to use a single number as both an absolute date/time, and to compute relative durations between timestamps with reasonable precision. I've lost track of the number of bugs I've fixed where someone assumed a double would be big enough without doing the math.
Microseconds gets you to the year 2255; milliseconds to heat death.
1. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=January+1%2C+1970+%2B+...