On: setBigTimeout

[drdaeman]

I thought most non-abandoned C/C++ projects have long switched to time_t or similar. 2038 is not that far in the future.

[andrewmcwatters → drdaeman]

2038 is even "now" if you're calculating futures.

[afavour → drdaeman]

Yes but JS always has backwards compatibility in mind, even if it wasn’t in the spec. Wouldn’t be surprised if more modern implementations still add an arbitrary restriction.

[asveikau → drdaeman]

There's a shocking amount of systems that still have 32 bit time_t.

Linux and glibc only started supporting it on 32bit systems in the current decade.

[kelnos → asveikau]

I mean, we still have 14 years to go. It's not like it's 1999 and everyone is freaking out about y2k. We still have plenty of time.

That doesn't mean it's fine to wait and leave it until the last minute, but we have quite a few last minutes left at this point.

[lloeki → kelnos]

> we have quite a few last minutes left at this point.

    C’est l’histoire d’un homme qui tombe d’un immeuble de 50 étages.

    Le mec, au fur et à mesure de sa chute, il se répète sans cesse pour se rassurer:
    
    "Jusqu’ici tout va bien."
    "Jusqu’ici tout va bien."
    "Jusqu’ici tout va bien..."

    Mais l’important c’est pas la chute, c’est l’atterrissage.

Tx'd:

    There's this story of a man falling off a 50 floor building. Along his fall the guy repeats to himself in comfort:

    "So far, so good"
    "So far, so good"
    "So far, so good..."

    What matters though is not the fall, but the landing.

- Hubert, in La Haine (1995), Mathieu Kassovitz

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U-v6QVlpReU

[bobmcnamara → drdaeman]

Debian conversion should be done mid2025.