Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• pelya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe on my 32-bit ARM server with ancient kernel it will. Any 64-bit machine is immune.

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  • gedhrel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.

    The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.

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    • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …timestamp is signed? Why?

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      • SteveTech@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It also allows users to store dates back to ~1902.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’ll be 911 times 1000.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’ll be 911,000? As long as it’s stored with 32 bits that should be fine 🤷

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree. We’ve been able to do 6 digit math for decades now

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