Timeline of the far future
> <i>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.</i><p>Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?