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JavaScript's days are numbered (dormi.zone)
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs#Year_275,760

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[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

please apply a logistic transformation to your dates

Which is definitely a totally normal and everyday operation that normal people do with dates

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a little out of the ordinary for now, but for thousands of years dates counted upwards from a negative number, which this new method easily avoids.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

for thousands of years dates counted upwards from a negative number

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