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Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything (www.theregister.com)

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/607/

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

If only we'd chosen 1944-12-02 08:45:52 as the Unix epoch, we could've combined two doomsday scenarios into one and added a really boring scene to that Roland Emmerich movie.