gwern comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 August 2010 10:29:55AM 0 points [-]

People still use 32-bit OSs?

But seriously, you could probably shell out to something else. Or you could change the output - it doesn't have to be in seconds or minutes. For example, you could call date to get the current year, and subtract that against 2074 or whatever.