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Rouven

Why don't we format Unix timestamps like we do with IPv4 addresses? They are both just 32 bit integers.

"Hey, what time is it?" - "Oh, it's 103.1.0.185."

It even works for time ranges!
"The conference will be held in 103.1.0.0/19"

#unix #time #ipv4

5 October at 9:08 | Open on dresden.network
22 comments
Paktosan
nerdette
Jens Finkhäuser
April
@jens @r5 :blobcatamongus: :akko_derp: how about we just say time in beats aka internet time
5 October at 10:47 | Open on donotsta.re
Arne Babenhauserheide

@jens shouldn’t we then go right for IPv6-time? ☺

@r5

5 October at 11:11 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Multi Purr Puss :verified:

@r5 I'd say this notation would be a worse problem than y2k38 😉

5 October at 11:03 | Open on layer8.space
Windfisch

@r5 @leyrer some ranges are reserved for private use, though. and pretty soon, we'll run out of them so they become more and more valuable

5 October at 11:23 | Open on chaos.social
FlippoFlip 🏴‍☠️

@r5 this is gotta be the dumbest idea i have herad in quite sone time. I love it.

5 October at 11:30 | Open on norden.social
Vex Machina
Peter Mount

@r5 @revk should be using 64bits now for Unix timestamps as they are signed & the Y2K38 issue with 32 bits 😉

5 October at 12:04 | Open on area51.social
Rupert Reynolds

@r5
Now being implemented in the timfmt() function, in TheLanguageWithNoName.

I'm now busy trying to work out what I'd use a netmask for :-)

5 October at 12:12 | Open on hachyderm.io
Rupert Reynolds

@r5 Hmm, a mask could make every other period of 34mins 8secs unavailable for meetings, so that nobody could steal more than about ½ hour, and even then only if they were really keen to have me :-)

5 October at 13:15 | Open on hachyderm.io
MidgePhoto
Tony Hoyle

@r5 32bit time_t fails in 2038 though.

I propose timev6.. we can up the granularity to milliseconds as well, so it's currently 0000:0192:5CBB:447D and that won't run out for centuries.

5 October at 12:50 | Open on toot.hoyle.me.uk
Udo B.
Paul Schleifer

@r5 What’s wrong with just using milliseconds since 1 January 1970 (sorry, I mean 0).

5 October at 13:15 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Martin Hamilton

@r5 <me right now time travelling to hang out at 127.0.0.1> :tardis:

5 October at 13:41 | Open on martinh.net
Local Agency

@r5 a cursed suggestion; but slightly less cursed than Swatch Internet Time
swatch.com/en-us/internet-time

5 October at 13:54 | Open on beige.party
Lona Theartlav

@r5 Decimal binary time, hm?
It does show how close we are to the overflow.
Also makes me feel old. I was born around 31.0.0.0/8

5 October at 14:09 | Open on anarres.family
AterNox

@r5@dresden.network Maybe this is how the Stardate came about in Startrek!

5 October at 14:29 | Open on atergens.com
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