> Under many cosmological theories, the integers under 2^63 are adequate to cover the entire expected lifetime of the universe; in this case no extensions will be necessary.
Pessimists!
Pessimists!
The thing that blew my mind: when things started getting very weird, and I was thinking "ok but we're roughly at the end now", I checked the indicator. It was only half-way. It is a 30 minute video. And the time speeds up logarithmically.
> As discussed in 2.4.1, the end of the universe is predicted to occur well before the year 10 * 30. However, if there is one single lesson to be learned from the current Y2K problems, it is that specifications and conventions have a way of out living their expected environment. Therefore we feel it is imperative to completely solve the date representation problem once and for all.