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Unix timestamp or death.
Well if it's a 32bit timestamp you're screwed after 19 January 2038 (at 03:14:07 UTC)
I don't think modern systems use 32bit stamps anymore, the ones that do are built to fail
i don't think json is guaranteed to parse 64 ints by spec tho, unless you store them as strings
Maybe they're planning on dying before then? In which case they're fine.