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. ;)
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Date: 2008-05-30 06:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 08:11 pm (UTC)That, and it's a wonderful commentary on never underestimating the lifetime of legacy code. ;)