50 quintruleon years

lars@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 87 points –
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That's 2^64, which means they're probably storing the number of days as an 8 byte integer, and that's the maximum value it can take.

It didn’t occur to me they’d use something as unique as days instead of seconds to store this. Despite the fact that the GUI says days.

Thank you.