The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoWow, futuristic. media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1677arrow-down13
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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·3 months agoNope, 1901. The seconds don’t overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.
minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months 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-up2·3 months agonow imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!
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.