[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Rob Seaman]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote:


> Without a plan, people will keep doing what they are doing now.  Today's code might not be around in 10k years, but if people don't come up with a plan, then code written 1k or 5k years from now will still have the same problems.


I think the question is whether code will be "written" and whether people will do the writing line-by-line, method-by-method, class-by-class.  Multi-radix representations will live forever, however, if only to parse old timestamps :-)  Maybe they'll be working on an ISO-8601 v2.0 by that point...