Now I feel bad for using (system foundation timestamp)+100 years as end of "forever" ownership relations in one of my systems. Looking now, it's only 89 years left. I think I should use nulls instead.

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prerok 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, it won't be your problem /j

	▲	bombcar 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-388 - they wanted to use a 64 bit int for the tick count, but Lua doesn't have one; so they used the one available and worked out when it would lose precision. "More than 2 million years seems to be enough for us to not be around any more when the bug reports start appearing."