On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:14, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > > (We could live with that, if the software would allow us to > > actually date things in the 1940s > > Which reminds me -- is January 2038 considered "the end of time" as on > LiveJournal? > > IIRC, Dreamwidth will be 64-bit throughout, so hopefully their time_t > (or whatever is used) will also be 64-bit and will not suffer from > Y2.038K.
I'm not actually sure that's the reason we can't put game-chronology timestamps on things, because 1942 is after 1939. If LJ allowed dates between 1939 and 2038, there'd be no reason I couldn't say I was posting in 1942, and I don't think it will let me. There's got to be some other thing in the code that prevents us from doing this. LJ allows birthdates as far back as 1890. I don't really understand why I'm allowed to have one character say that her birthdate is in 1892 but 1888 is not okay! > But that would also open the door to timestamps in the 1940s -- > or indeed BC timestamps, if users want to use them! (Or from > the 35th century.) Apparently not. I do know you can timestamp in the 1970s. But not on communities. (I've run across Marauders-era HP games with posts dated 1977-1980, but they weren't using a community.) Kiri :) **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
