Use 128 bit integer in femptoseconds, with epoch being the begining of the universe. And it should be signed, because what if there was a previous universe.
Jokes aside, Unix Epoch shouls be replaced by Tai time on every computer.
Jokes aside, Unix Epoch shouls be replaced by Tai time on every computer.
I.e., use a 536-bit unsigned integer to store Planck time with one Planck time following the big bang as the epoch, and use the top three bits as a tetration height instead of an exponent, and you can get real far.
All the best,
For the past, it’s possible to workaround by saying “no leap seconds” but this means that 12PM 1000 years ago might be any time of the day.
But that workaround not gonna work for the future. For many use cases it’s important to be able to represent date-time for many years in the future. The currently used formats allow that easily, at the price of these unpredictable leap second adjustments.