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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up56arrow-down2·1 month agoMeanwhile computers in 2038: “The current year is 1901”
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·1 month agoNope, 1901. The seconds don’t overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.
minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoHuh, never thought about that. So systems that store timestamps as unsigned integers are fine for another 70 years or so?
minus-squareurandom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agonow imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!
Meanwhile computers in 2038: “The current year is 1901”
More like 1970
Nope, 1901. The seconds don’t overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.
Huh, never thought about that. So systems that store timestamps as unsigned integers are fine for another 70 years or so?
now imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!
Pretty much spot on, 2106.