Sunday, May 30, 2021

What so special about 1/19/2038? On that day, Epoch time will crash a lot of 32 bit machines.


Similar to Y2K bug, a lot of code was written using Number of Seconds since 1970 (Epoch time).  In 2038, 32 bit Ints will overflow.


https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-is-ready-for-the-end-of-time/


Wiki info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem


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