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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Database stores as INT though, so you're still fucked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Int you say? -17 it is. In Benjamin Button years.

Come to think of it, unsigned char is probably the best hardware data type for an age, if we assume nobody's going to cure aging completely.