In Literature
Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky describes a space-faring trading civilization tens of thousands of years (hundreds of gigaseconds) in the future that apparently still uses the Unix epoch, despite the apparent problems that would have arisen with older Unix systems following the Year 2038 problem. The 'programming archaeologist' responsible for maintenance of old computer systems first believes that the epoch refers to the time when man first walked on the moon, but then realises that it is "the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems."
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