Type:Date
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This type can handle any date and time between Friday, 13 December 1901 20:45:54 UTC and Tuesday, 19 January 2038 03:14:07 UTC. This type is strictly experimental. You should not use it to annotate historical dates outside of this range.
Technical Facts
This type covers a range of seconds having their zero at midnight on New Years' Eve 1969-70 and extending backward and forward in time to the limit of the number of seconds (positive or negative) that you can store in an unsigned 32-bit ("long") integer. 2,147, 483,648 seconds backward in time from midnight on New Years' Eve 1969-70 takes you slightly more than sixty-eight years into the past, hence the "past limit" on this date. The "future limit" goes 2,147,483,648 seconds forward in time from that date.
The designers of this data type intended it for use in the chronicling of relatively recent (i.e., twentieth-century) events and predicting events into the not-too-distant future. So, while it might be eminently suitable for an article on a past, present, or future crewed or uncrewed space mission, it would not be suitable for annotating the date of creation or of any reign, founding of a city, etc.
This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki.
