Nah, all this is solved with star-dates. One of the Federation's crowning achievements - Warp Drive is small potatoes compared to getting hundreds of delegates from as many different worlds to all agree on one calendar system that is not based on their own world's orbit around its primary.. Diplomatic impossibility, but they managed it.

Relief point: we will still be using unix timestamp.

Anxious point: we will still be using unix timestamp.

That's easy. We'd just use Greg time.

Greg's age and mood is highly deterministic, and he has atoms in his body present from the big bang. His sense of time varies, and seems to accelerate as he gets older, and he will tell you about it with extreme detail down to either 2 decimal places or 3 beers. If you call him up and ask him what time it is, the degree of the obscenities used in his reply is usually a good enough correction coefficient when calling over long distances.

Also two of his kids hate him, and his current wife is thinking of leaving him; all countable metrics that one can use to ascertain what stage in his life Greg is at, and thus what the local date/time in your area is, based on all the above Greg stats.

We're all just going to use tz_database and turn the maintainer into a ghost trapped in the machine for all of eternity.

Don't we technically already have to account for time dilation for things like GPS satellites

tine dilation

Holds up fork and squints at it

days may be longer than years (hello Venus).

Hello back

I will just rely on ISO 8602 to introduce a universal time format

Also, interplanetary timezones and leaps.

I will be so excited if we make it that far, double if I'm alive to see it.

Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)

Also computer issues aren’t a problem anymore after that (perhaps aside from the Ixians).

Programmers in the next universe iteration: deep sigh

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Also hasn't been rebooted in 7000 years, because uptime is important

While I doubt will be stuck on Earth in 7000 years, there's absolutely going to be some of those old systems with 7000+ years of uptime. Just throw the nanite repair gel on it every 50 or so years.

I asked ChatGPT for some potential solutions to the Y10K issue. I particularly enjoyed this suggestion:

Plan for Y10K Early: Build flexible and extensible systems now, with modular design to incorporate future changes seamlessly.

Superweed.