saintsatellite:dyatlovpassingprivilege: saintsatellite: lemonsharks:Queue this up for six months aft
saintsatellite:dyatlovpassingprivilege: saintsatellite: lemonsharks:Queue this up for six months after we break population immunity 2038 is going to be soooo bad sam please tell people about 2038 In short: almost all computers count time by counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 – this is the Unix Epoch. Older computers store all their numbers using 32 bits, with one bit reserved for the sign (since computers have to refer to time before the Unix Epoch too). So 2³¹ seconds after the Unix Epoch, all the 32 bit computers will instead think it’s 2³¹ seconds BEFORE the Epoch.Most of our computers use 64 bits now. But lots of embedded systems going back God knows how long DON’T. And so the BEST case is that the computers go back to thinking it’s 1901. The worst case is they break and nobody notices until it breaks something much worse. -- source link