<story><title>Timeline of the far future</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>It will be easier to boost the Earth’s spin back to a 86,400-second day than to fix all the code.</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>improv32</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been suggested that perhaps one way to find evidence of extrasolar life, would be to find exoplanets whose years are integer multiples of their rotational periods, i.e. they&amp;#x27;ve done what you describe just to eliminate leap years and make their calendars easier.</text></comment>
<story><title>Timeline of the far future</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>It will be easier to boost the Earth’s spin back to a 86,400-second day than to fix all the code.</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrighele</author><text>I would just change the duration of a second. It would be probably easier to change a few physics constants here and there than to fix all the broken code.</text></comment>