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Re: The Epochalypse Project

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I think this effort would benefit from trying to qualify what “unpredictable ways” actually means. If anyone is testing devices, a catalog of test results describing the actual failure modes that were revealed would help make this whole thing more concrete.

I think many software engineers know that if you want to make any organization care about this type of issue, you need to be ready to demonstrate the severity and impact.

Re: The Epochalypse Project

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post #8

When will milliseconds since the Unix epoch not be precisely representable in IEEE double anymore? (As it's used in JavaScript.)

In the year 287390 (285420.9 years after 1970) according to my calculations using DuckDuckGo’s calculator.

If you ask ChatGPT it’s:

    = 285,616 years after 1970
    = Year 285,616
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