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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·2 days agoNope, 1901. The seconds don’t overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.
minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoHuh, never thought about that. So systems that store timestamps as unsigned integers are fine for another 70 years or so?
minus-squareurandom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agonow imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!
More like 1970
Nope, 1901. The seconds don’t overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.
Huh, never thought about that. So systems that store timestamps as unsigned integers are fine for another 70 years or so?
now imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!
Pretty much spot on, 2106.