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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 1 month ago

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

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Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 1 month ago
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Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
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: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away

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    And what will we do when we get to December 4th, 292,277,026,596 AD, at 20:10:55 UTC???

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      They’ll switch to a 128 bit integer, completely breaking backwards compatibility.

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