Gregory's Server@a1ba@expired.mentality.rip @chjara@mk.absturztau.be No, it's signed. If it was unsigned, it could go all the way up to 2106 or so at the cost of breaking the ability to precisely compare times in some cases (this was in fact suggested as an emergency remedy some places, among them the infamous titor-special torrent)
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@a1ba@expired.mentality.rip @chjara@mk.absturztau.be I seem to remember it being originally something like 16 bits as well, but they wisely abandoned that before it escaped the lab @allison@mk.toast.cafe @a1ba@expired.mentality.rip to be fair unix wasn't expected to survive more than a year, it was like, a demo @chjara@mk.absturztau.be @a1ba@expired.mentality.rip something something "if I could go back in time and change one thing, I would spell 'creat' with an 'e'" |
so Unix is even more retarded than I thought