Hey list,
I'm reading the https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/ spec and I have a question
There are some fields in the USER_RECORD spec which are described as "unsigned 64 bit integer values". Specifically the fields describing time.
However JSON lacks integers and only has doubles [0]; which would mean 53 bit integer precision is about the maximum we can reach. It's unclear to me from the spec whether I should use doubles to encode these fields or use strings. Would it be possible to further clarify it? If it is indeed a number literal; this means the maximum date we can encode is 9007199254740991 which corresponds to Tuesday, June 5, 2255 . This honestly is too soon in the future for my comfort. I suggest encoding 64 bit integers as string literals instead to avoid the truncation problem.
