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Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] fargeol@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Oh shit, I missed that part, I always thought it was an unsigned int.. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Well today I learned ๐Ÿ‘