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Old 12th Apr 2019, 08:58
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Originally Posted by Herod
A delayed Y2K problem?
More like an early version of the Unix year 2038 rollover problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
The Year 2038 problem relates to representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed since 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit binary integer.
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