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> 2038 is going to be a lot of fun Indeed it will be!
by develatio 4y ago
> 2038 is going to be a lot of fun
Indeed it will be!
- gary_0 4y agoWe're gonna party like it's 1999!
- deathanatos 4y agoActually, we'll probably be partying like it's Fri Dec 13 1901 20:45:52 GMT. Ooh, Friday the 13th too, ominous.
- hoosieree 4y agoOh jeez, it's going to be so much worse than y2k.
- CodesInChaos 4y agoAt least we won't have to suffer though the 2106 problem.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoNTP epoch in 2036 is going to be better since it isn't getting any attention and there's going to be no shortage of broken IoT devices that fail.
- mkl 4y agoFor the curious: https://doc.ntp.org/reflib/y2k/ https://doc.ntp.org/reflib/y2k/. 2^32 seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00 ends on 7 Feb 2036. The 2038 problem is 2^31 seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00, the Unix epoch.
- ryandrake 4y agoY2038 programming is my retirement plan. I’ll be around 60 and probably kicked out of Silicon Valley employability due to ageism. Like the cobol programmers in the 90s, in 2038 they will be scrambling to find old farts who still know C and UNIX.