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minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·1 month ago‘…(potentially setting time back to 1900)…’ From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, wouldn’t the 32 bit time reset back to 1970 after the overflow/rollover?
minus-squareFargeol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·1 month agoOh shit, I missed that part, I always thought it was an unsigned int… 🤦♂️ Well today I learned 👍
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoyou’re wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it’s late 1901
minus-squareeah@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 month agoThere are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoThat’s just a really solid joke.
‘…(potentially setting time back to 1900)…’
From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, wouldn’t the 32 bit time reset back to 1970 after the overflow/rollover?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)
Oh shit, I missed that part, I always thought it was an unsigned int… 🤦♂️
Well today I learned 👍
you’re wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it’s late 1901
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
That’s just a really solid joke.
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