I love that Vernor Vinge had the Qeng Ho group still using time_t millennia from now, thinking zero was approximately the first moon landing. It'll probably happen, too.
LOL Yeah... it's funny how we create fanciful notions for the beginning of our calendars, assuming that something momentous must have occurred, instead of it being an accident of math and culture.
That, and it's a wonderful commentary on never underestimating the lifetime of legacy code. ;)
(Of course, I love that the show has finally directly acknowledged the UNIT dating problem by having the Doctor be uncertain about whether he worked with them in the 70's or 80's .... )
Yeah, Ahistory had a good rundown of the issues and problems as well. (Which I almost followed after reading the entire book three times in succession...)
... Both? No, actually, not so much "wow, I can't believe you came up with it" as "wow, that joke is aimed at a really small subset of the population."
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Date: 2008-05-30 08:11 pm (UTC)That, and it's a wonderful commentary on never underestimating the lifetime of legacy code. ;)
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Date: 2008-05-30 11:35 pm (UTC)(Of course, I love that the show has finally directly acknowledged the UNIT dating problem by having the Doctor be uncertain about whether he worked with them in the 70's or 80's .... )
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