date type?

[mnrvovrfc]

One question - I see it used 64-bit integers, this means it would be immune to the problem of UNIX dates not working past the year 2038?

Might have to take away from this result, but I got 2924712086.77536 years!

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$CONSOLE:ONLY
dim n as _integer64, r as double
' maximum positive value of signed 64-bit
n = &H7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
' do milliseconds
r = n / 6000
' do minutes
r = r / 60
' do hours
r = r / 24
' do years
r = r / 365
print r

EDIT: maybe this program is not accurate, but we are future-proof for our generation and for the generation just becoming adults now. At least on 64-bit MacOS, Linux and "what"BSD there should be no such limit. I don't know the technical workings of "btrfs", "ext4", "zfs" and other such file systems but they use 64-bit addressing for "inodes" and stuff like that.

EDIT #2: It shouldn't be a problem with 64-bit representation of time then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#...able_times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem