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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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