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programmers-guide.md: rephrase statement about integers
time is still limited to 64-bits, so rephrase the disclaimer. Signed-off-by: Davide Bettio <davide@uninstall.it>
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Erlang/OTP uses the Christian epoch to count time units from year 0 in the Gregorian calendar. The, for example, the value 0 in Gregorian seconds represents the date Jan 1, year 0, and midnight (UTC), or in Erlang terms, `{{0, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 0}}`.
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```{attention}
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AtomVM is currently limited to representing integers in at most 64 bits, with one bit representing the sign bit.
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AtomVM is currently limited to representing time in at most 64 bits, with one bit representing the sign bit.
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However, even with this limitation, AtomVM is able to resolve microsecond values in the Gregorian calendar for over
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292,000 years, likely well past the likely lifetime of an AtomVM application (unless perhaps launched on a deep
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space probe).

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