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> The question is if the calculation could be made even more efficient by reducing to 32 bits, or maybe even just 16 bits.

This is somewhat moot considering that 64-bits is the native width of most modern computers and Unix time will exceed 32-bits in just 12 years.



I meant reducing the representable year numbers, not the whole timestamp.




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