s32 Unix Clock | Weblog
By David Buchanan, 13th of September 2023
I have been considering I ought to do extra “brief type” running a blog. One thing between microblogging and common running a blog. That is me doing that!
Anyway, I used to be interested by methods to visualise the yr 2038 drawback, and that is what I got here up with: https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/ (go test it out, it seems a lot better in movement)
It is fairly easy. The clock face has 256 “ticks” (annotated in hexadecimal), and 4 dials, every transferring precisely 256 occasions slower than the earlier. The longest and quickest transferring dial strikes at one tick per second, which suggests it takes very roughly 4 minutes to do a full revolution (4:16, really). The subsequent hand takes roughly 18 hours, the following roughly 6 months, and the smallest hand takes ~136 years – or precisely 2^32 seconds.
There’s nothing significantly particular about this association, however I discover it fairly aesthetically pleasing, from a numerical perspective. Mathsthetically pleasing?
As regards to aesthetics, I picked the colors for the clock palms utilizing https://coolors.co/
I wasn’t joking concerning the “brief type” running a blog, in order that’s all I’ve to say!