Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"greg" <greg at cosc.c...ry.ac.nz> wrote:

> 
> Another thought: If the cosmologists ever decide if
> and when the Big Crunch is going to happen, we may be
> able to figure out once and for all how many bits we
> need in the timestamp.
> 

Unless of course, its all an oscillation - bang, crunch, bang, crunch,
as the cosmic engine ticks over...

But of course, cycles other than our own are kind of unreachable.

- Hendrik