Tupach Time 👑

The next evolution of the UNIX epoch. Shift the origin, delay the Year 2038 overflow problem, and measure moments with poetic perfection.

What is Tupach Time?

Standard Unix time dictates that the digital epoch began exactly at 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. As it rapidly increments, we march ominously towards the Year 2038 Problem, where legacy 32-bit signed integers will overflow and crash.

Tupach Time remedies this. By pushing the mathematical origin timestamp forward to Tupac Shakur's exact time of death (1996-09-13T23:03:00.000Z), we physically gain 842,655,780 seconds. That yields roughly 26.7 extra years for mathematically constrained systems, defending them against integer overflow until December 2064.

Installation

You can install tupach-time from npm using your preferred package manager:

# npm
npm install tupach-time

# pnpm
pnpm add tupach-time

# yarn
yarn add tupach-time

Features

1. Numerical Engineering (tupachTime)

Get the exact duration in milliseconds since Tupac's epoch.

import { tupachTime, fromTupachTime, TUPACH } from 'tupach-time';

// TUPACH is exactly 842655780000 
console.log(TUPACH);

// Get the current Tupach Time (milliseconds since 1996-09-13 4:03 PM PDT)
const ms = tupachTime();

// Or get Tupach Time for a specific date
const earlierMs = tupachTime(new Date('2026-03-10T00:00:00.000Z'));

// Convert Tupach Time back into a standard JavaScript Date object
const nativeDate = fromTupachTime(ms); 

2. The Makaveli Cipher (tupacTime)

Beyond mathematics, tupach-time includes the Makaveli Cipher.

This encodes any localized moment in time down to the exact millisecond into exclusive poetry mapped completely natively across a strict 64-word vocabulary of Tupac's prolific musical lexicon (e.g. thug, passion, dreams, ambitionz).

Because time moves forward, no two milliseconds in history share the same generated phrase.

import { tupacTime, fromTupacTime } from 'tupach-time';

// Generate a lyrical string cipher for the current millisecond
// Example Output: "judge friends player men faith glory"
const cipher = tupacTime();

// It handles historical moments natively! 
// Tupac's exact death output: "makaveli"
const tupacDeath = tupacTime(new Date('1996-09-13T23:03:00.000Z'));

// Biggie's exact death mathematically computes cleanly across the Base-64 vocabulary:
// Output: "rest in peace notorious biggie makaveli"
const biggieDeath = tupacTime(new Date('1997-03-09T09:15:00.000Z'));

// You can reverse any cipher flawlessly back to its original millisecond Date object without any loss of precision
const decodedDate = fromTupacTime("judge friends player men faith glory");

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