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I'm really curious how 2038 is going to play out. I think it's either going to be a retirement plan for many who are young-ish IT people right now, or "optimis
by tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago
I'm really curious how 2038 is going to play out.
I think it's either going to be a retirement plan for many who are young-ish IT people right now, or "optimists hoard gold, pessimists hoard cans and ammo" time with the pessimists being right. And a lot of this depends on how decision makers will remember Y2k.
- IshKebab 2y agoNobody is going to waste as much money on it as they did with Y2K and it's way more common for computers to actually use epoch time... but I think almost everything uses 64-bit time now and we're still more than a decade away. (Don't reply with examples of things that use 32-bit time.)
- tgsovlerkhgsel 2y agoI think 64 bit time is reasonably common in memory, but 32 bit time is common in serialized formats (both for storage and communication/exchange).