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If time machines existed

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:55 am
by impulse()
Do you think they would run on unix timestamps?

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:56 am
by guitarlvr
*thinks to self* i would immagine. Hell if they worked on Windows, you would be stuck in the space time continuum forever.

Wayne

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:09 am
by TheMoose
No, because I want to be able to go back to the dinosaur age, not the hippie age :)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:12 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Not unless they wanted to run between 1970 and 2038.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:05 pm
by Mordred
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.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:45 pm
by dreamscape
HA! As if a 64 bit machine could even dream of computing the necessary calculations for time travel... pfftt...