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

• gedhrel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …timestamp is signed? Why?

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    • SteveTech@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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