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Right, but there's no doomsday prophecies around the Year 2038 problem as far as I can tell. I think it falls in the same kind of category of known problems tha
by layman51 1y ago
Right, but there's no doomsday prophecies around the Year 2038 problem as far as I can tell. I think it falls in the same kind of category of known problems that are certain to happen at some point. Some other things I was thinking of were the theorized ARkStorm, and also an earthquake that could happen in the Cascadia subduction zone.
- lloeki 1y agoIt's also not impacting _only_ at that time, many tasks involve dates in the future, and a system dealing with a far enough off date _today_ is already impacted. So it's not as if "everything works" then suddenly "everything doesn't" And it's only for operations that care about the sign / compute deltas / use signed numbers, otherwise it's 2106-02-07 06:28:16 UTC.
- LorenPechtel 1y agoOr humans make a mistake. I got burned by the MsDos date rollover with signed values ~20 years ago. A salesman fat-fingered a job into the 2060s. Of course while I was on the other side of the world with no phone access.