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I imagine that most of those applications are very much tied to the calendar — traffic lights and HVAC systems need to behave differently on different days. Tr
by corbet 8y ago
I imagine that most of those applications are very much tied to the calendar — traffic lights and HVAC systems need to behave differently on different days.
Trying to minimize the amount of broken code that's still running in 2038 is a big part of why people are working hard to fix the problem now.
- chungy 8y agoMaybe we could set them to 1907 and remain happy that near-future leap years and weekdays will align perfectly well. At least until 2100 needs to be skipped as a leap year ;)
- robocat 8y agoUnix epoch: the number of seconds passed since 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit binary integer The minimum representable date turns out to be on 1901 and zero is a valid value (1 January 1970)... I wonder what problems people with that birth date have? Similar to the person named Null, or Bobby Drop Tables?