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I know this isn't any kind of surprise, and yet, well...

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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's a different shitshow but agreed it is likely to be worse - like y2k the effects are smeared out before and after the date.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] leo@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago
[–] Robmart@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

32bit systems will stop working. The Unix timestamp, which increases by 1 every second and started the first second of 1970, will reach the max of 32 bit integers. Bad things will follow.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

This has already been patched on all 64 bit OSes though - whatever 32 bit systems are still in existence in another 15 years will just roll their dates back 50 years and add another layer of duct tape to their jerry-rigged existence