Well the solution to our “not enough bits” problem has been generally available for 20 years. Signed bigint time would cover from the Permian Period until 290 million years from now, down to ms precision. That ought to be good enough for most use cases.

You get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!

Milliseconds since the epoch is the only true time

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