If time machines existed

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impulse()
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If time machines existed

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Do you think they would run on unix timestamps?
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*thinks to self* i would immagine. Hell if they worked on Windows, you would be stuck in the space time continuum forever.

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No, because I want to be able to go back to the dinosaur age, not the hippie age :)
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Not unless they wanted to run between 1970 and 2038.
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Actually, this is a misconception, UNIX timestamps are just a method of measuring time, number of seconds since 01.01.1970. Times before that date are represented by negative numbers. So 1970 is a problem if you only use positive numbers, and 2038 is a problem only if you use signed 32 bit values. 64 bit timestamps, on the other hand are wide enough, so one must choose a modern compiler, capable of handling int64, for the time machine.
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HA! As if a 64 bit machine could even dream of computing the necessary calculations for time travel... pfftt...
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