The road to Zettalinux

I've had fun loading in ancient time and future times into software that is designed for time series data. I never really expected these things to be handled smoothly, but the bugs you get are sometimes fascinating. Sometimes they expose problems worth fixing.

There is definitely software that handles times after 2038 just fine. Some use a larger value, some decompose the time info into things that don't happen to overflow. What came as a surprise to me is just how many bugs you hit at 2100 and/or 2200, not because of the representation but because of all sorts of bad encoded assumptions in bits of logic here and there.