> The computer industry is already addressing some long-term issues. The newest generation of Unix machines, for example, now define their counters in 2^64 numbers, which will not run out of clock space for at least another 290 billion years -- or long after the sun has swallowed up Earth.
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> Wolf "a moral obligation for programmers to design code as best as they can: Because future generations will build upon our unseen mistakes" spirit

I don't know exactly how Mac's count time but I do know that they aren't due to run out for about 26, 000 years.

I hope they have replaced software by then.

lada(I didn't know that about c++)dada